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Etymology
From, , from , from , from , genitive of , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , modern 🇨🇬.

Pronunciation

 * (colloquial)
 * (colloquial)

Adjective

 * 1)  Other; in addition to previously mentioned items.

Usage notes

 * This adjective usually follows an indefinite or interrogative pronoun, as in the examples above. In other cases, the adjective is typically used.

Translations

 * Arabic: ;
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: d'
 * German: ; ;
 * Hungarian:
 * Khmer:
 * Latin:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: iný
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: (things)
 * Volapük:

Adverb

 * 1)  Otherwise, if not.

Usage notes

 * This word frequently follows interrogative adverbs, such as, , and , as well as the derived , , and.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, освен това
 * Danish: ellers
 * Dutch: zoniet,, in het andere geval
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: სხვანაირად, სხვაგვარად
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, , , ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 然も無くば
 * Latin: alioqui
 * Lithuanian: o dar
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: inak
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil:
 * Yiddish: אַנישט, אַניט


 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:

Conjunction

 * 1) For otherwise; or else.

Translations

 * Arabic: وَإِلَا
 * German:, ,
 * Low German:
 * German Low German:
 * Portuguese:
 * Slovene: sicer
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: இல்லையெனில்