Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adv
Very close to, but not quite. · Up to, except for a negligible set (where negligible is not universally but contextually defined). · Up to a null set; except for a set of measure 0.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventorySomething or someone that doesn't quite make it.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂elnós Proto-Germanic *allaz Proto-Germanic *ala- Proto-West Germanic *ala- Old English æl- Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-der. Proto-Germanic *maiz Proto-Germanic *maistaz Proto-Germanic *maist Proto-West Germanic *maist Old English mǣst Old English eallmǣst Middle English almost English almost From Middle English almost, from Old English eallmǣst (“nearly all, almost, for the most part”), equivalent to al- (“all”) + most.
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