Standard Lemma guide
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adv
In addition; besides; as well; further; too.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: conjunctive, focus, not-comparable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
To the same degree or extent; so, as.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
conj
and in addition
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: focus
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
in addition
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: besides, too, likewise, as well
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2el-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h2elnós Proto-Germanic *allaz Proto-West Germanic *all Proto-Indo-European *swéder.? Proto-Germanic *swa Proto-West Germanic *swā Proto-West Germanic *allswā Old English eallswā Middle English also English also From Middle English also, alswo, alswa (also als(e), as, whence English as), from Old English eallswā (“just like, also”), from Proto-West Germanic *allswā, equivalent to all + so. Cognate with Scots alsa, alswa (“also, even so, in the same way, as, as well”), Saterland Frisian also (“accordingly, therefore, thus”), West Frisian alsa (“so, just so, even so, thus”), Old Saxon alsō (“similarly, as if, just as, when”), Dutch alzo (“so, thus”), German also (“so, thus”), Danish altså (“so”), Norwegian Bokmål altså (“so, therefore, accordingly, thus”), Norwegian Nynorsk altso (“so, accordingly, therefore, thus”), Swedish alltså (“so, therefore, accordingly, thus, then”). Doublet of as. More at all, so.
Across languages
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