eş: brâment, énormément, en sale, moult, beaufaire, bellement
köken: Inherited from Old French biau cop, first attested circa 1210. Equivalent to beau (“nice, beautiful”) + coup (“hit, strike”). The latter word also means “helping of soup or beverage”, first attested circa 1375, whose sense may have triggered or reinforced beaucoup to mean “a lot”.
aile: à beaucoup près, c'est beaucoup, de beaucoup, il s'en faut de beaucoup, pour beaucoup
köken: Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish چُوقْ (çoq), چوخ (çoḫ), from Proto-Turkic *čok (“many, very; to gather, multiply”). Cognate with Turkish çok, Gagauz çok, Crimean Tatar çoq, etc.
dough (a thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients) · batter (a beaten mixture of flour and liquid) · pasta
çekim: çoğul massas
eş: dinheiro, grana, verba
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese massa, from Latin massa (“mass; dough”), from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “bread”), from μάσσω (mássō, “to handle; to knead”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ǵ-.
aile: em massa, massa atómica, massa bruta, massa cinzenta, massa corrida, massa do sangue, massa folhada, massas
much, a lot · used to emphasize a comparative; much, a lot · very
eş: wiele, mnogo, sporo, mnóstwo, multum, krocie
zıt: mało, niedużo
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰewgʰ-der. Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Balto-Slavic *daugjas Proto-Slavic *dužь Polish duży Proto-Slavic *-o Old Polish -o Polish -o Polish dużo From duży + -o. First attested in 1588. Compare Kashubian dużo, and Silesian dużo.
thick, dense · numerous, frequent, repeated · abundant, crowded with
çekim: karşılaştırma crēbrior · üstünlük crēberrimus
köken: Apparently from Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁- (“to grow”), the same root of Latin crēscō, + *-rós, but the /b/ lacks explanation. Perhaps from Proto-Italic *krēzros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁-s-ro- (compare crābrō < *krāzrō for the phonetics), or from a suffixed verb *ḱreh₁-dʰ- (compare ruber < *ruðros).
köken: From Malay banyak, from Classical Malay باڽق, from Old Malay vañak. First attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription as "vañakña" (current form banyaknya).