Intensifying prefix for superlatives: very; of them all
köken: From aller, the genitive form of alle (“all”), from Middle High German al, from Old High German al, from Proto-Germanic *allaz. Compare English all-, English alder-.
aller- + erste (“first”) → allererste (“very first”)
aller- + größte Stadt (“the biggest city”) → allergrößte Stadt (“the very biggest city / the biggest city of them all”)
aller- + meist (“most”) → allermeist (“almost all”)
too, also, as well · as (used for equal comparisons)
eş: autant, de même, en plus, également, pareillement
köken: Inherited from Middle French aussi, from Old French ossi, ausi, alsi (“as, in the same way as”), from Vulgar Latin *ale si (“other so, else so”), from Latin alid, aliud (“other, another, any other, else”) + sīc (“so, thus”); probably a calque of Frankish *allswā (“as, likewise, in the same way”). Compare also similarly formed Old French altresi (“as, in the same way as, also, as well”) and…
aile: aussi sec
Moi aussi
Dans le bois, quand mon fils dormait et que tu dormais aussi, j'ai failli t'embrasser tout doucement.
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.
köken: Inherited from Early Old Oghuz اُرَنْ (ören, “bad”), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾwylʾn' /awērān/). Doublet of weýran (“destroyed”).
köken: From jätte (“giant”). Compare Norwegian Bokmål kjempe-, Norwegian Nynorsk kjempe-, Danish kæmpe-, Dutch reuze- and German riesen-, all deriving from their respective word for ”giant”.
until · voila; soon, shortly; suddenly · only; scarcely; as soon as; when, as
eş: gw. (Górny Śląsk) aże
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)ōd Proto-Balto-Slavic *ō Proto-Slavic *a Proto-Indo-European *gʰe Proto-Balto-Slavic *ge Proto-Slavic *že univ. Proto-Slavic *aže Old Polish aż Polish aż Inherited from Old Polish aż.
köken: Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit *𑀇𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀺𑀦 (*ittina), 𑀇𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀺𑀮 (ittila), ultimately from Sanskrit इयत्तक (iyattaká). Cognate with Punjabi ਇੰਨਾ (innā), Gujarati એટલું (eṭalũ), Marathi इतके (itke).
very, extremely · in particular, particularly · synonym of eritellen (“specifying, allocating”)
eş: epätavallisen, erinomaisen, hirveän, huikean, hyvin, huomattavan
köken: eri + -ttäin (distributive plural). Equivalently, from the second infinitive instructive of erittää (“to specify”) (standard erittäen), and erittäin is very likely one of the prototypes for the -ttain suffix in general. Semantic evolution seems to run from senses 3-to-2-to-1.
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *eccum tantum, from Latin eccum + tantum. (The initial syllable of *eccum- compounds regularly turns to /a-/ in Romanian.) Closely parallel to Italian cotanto and Old Catalan aitant. Compare also Old French itant, Old Spanish atanto (as well as French tant, Italian tanto, Spanish tanto). For a clearer view of the phonetic evolution of the Romanian word, compare the…