köken: From Middle Dutch alles, genitive of al. The use as a case-neutral form may have been reinforced by German alles, from a merger of Middle High German alles (genitive) and allez (nominative and accusative). Note, however, that Dutch iets (“something”) and niets (“nothing”) are also genitives, as is German nichts. Moreover, the form alles is also used in western German dialects where it cannot go…
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see qualquer, coisa: anything. · in any event (specifically, used to comfort someone about the possibility of something unpleasant happening in the future) · something
köken: Literally, “any thing”.
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something (inanimate singular) · a little, a bit · somethings, some people (animate/inanimate plural (some))
köken: From Old Hindi कछु (kachu) undergoing metathesis, from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀓𑀺𑀁𑀘𑀺 (kiṃci); see there for more. Cognate with Bengali কিছু (kichu) and Punjabi ਕੁਝ (kujh). Originally the neuter nominative singular form of a paradigm whose masculine form became कोई (koī) and genitive form became किसी (kisī). See 𑀓𑁄𑀇 (koi) and 𑀓𑀲𑁆𑀲𑀇 (kassaï) for more.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *mi (compare Estonian mis, Veps mi), from Proto-Uralic *mi (compare Erzya мезе (meze), мее (meje), Komi-Zyrian мый (myj), Hungarian mi). The nominative and genitive singular forms, which would have otherwise been monosyllabic, have been extended with -kä (as with joka and kuka), possibly even in Proto-Finnic (*mikä), as reflected in Ingrian mikä and Voro mikä.