eş: dagegen, hingegen, indes, indessen, jedoch, doch
köken: From Middle High German aber, aver, from Old High German aber, ābar, abur, aver, avur, afur, from Proto-Germanic *aferą (“behind”). Compare Bavarian owa (“but”), Luxembourgish awer (“but”), Saterland Frisian oaber (“but”), Middle Low German āver, German Low German aver (“but”).
but (contrastive conjunction) · not only … but also
eş: lecz, pomimo, mimo to, jednak, lecz, tylko
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)ōd Proto-Balto-Slavic *ō Proto-Slavic *a Proto-Slavic *le univ. Proto-Slavic *ale Old Polish ale Polish ale Inherited from Old Polish ale. By surface analysis, univerbation of a + le. For the particle use, compare Hungarian de.
köken: Inherited from Prakrit परि (pari), an apheretic form of उप्परि (uppari), from Sanskrit उपरि (upari, “above”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *upári, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *upári, from Proto-Indo-European *upér, from *upo. Cognate with Gujarati પર (par), Marathi वर (var), and distantly Latin super and Old English ofer (whence English over). Doublet of ऊपर (ūpar).
but (introducing a clause contrary to prior belief or in contrast with the preceding clause or sentence)
köken: From muu (“other”), either based on: * the partitive singular form (muuta: “something else”; the -uu- would have first been shortened and the final vowel elided, thus mut(t) with reanalysis as mutta, perhaps via a development like ei juokse, muuta [kuin] kävelee (literally “isn't running, [not] other than walking”) > ei juokse, mutta kävelee (literally “isn't running but walking”)), * the…
Near-synonym: vaan
Olisin halunnut lähteä heidän mukaansa, mutta en ehtinyt.