köken: From the Latin adjective fortis, fortem, from Old Latin forctis, fortis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise, high, hill”). Compare the same semantic development in French fort, Occitan fòrça, Ligurian foart (attested in Menton, France). In older Romanian, the word was also used as a freestanding adverbial, in addition to simply as an intensifier.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Balto-Slavic *munagas Proto-Slavic *mъnogъder. Bulgarian много Derived from Proto-Slavic *mъnogъ, originally a fully-fletched adjective, eventually reanalysed as an indeclinable adverb. Fossilized plural forms мно́зи m (mnózi) and мно́га n (mnóga) (for example, in the poetic expression мно́гая ле́та (mnógaja léta, “many years”)) are attested in dialects and literature.…