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词汇	-most
词根词缀	AHD Collins Dictionary.com Macquarie MWCD NewOxfordEC OED Online Etymology Dictionary SOED WBD Webster Wiktionary YoudictWordRoots -most suff.（后缀） Most: 后缀，表示“最”： innermost. 最里面 Nearest to: 后缀，表“最近”： aftmost. 最后的语源 Middle English 中古英语 alteration influenced by most [most] * see most 受 most的影响 [最] 参见 most* of -mest -mest的变化 from Old English 源自古英语 -mo, -ma [superlative suff.] -mo, -ma [后缀，表“最高级的”] -est [superlative suff] -est [后缀，表“最高”] -most suffix forming the superlative degree of some adjectives and adverbs ⇒ hindmost, uppermost Origin Old English -mǣst, -mest, originally a superlative suffix, later mistakenly taken as derived from mǣst (adv) most -most Word Origin 1 a combining form of most occurring in a series of superlatives: foremost; utmost. Origin Middle English -most; replacing Middle English, Old English -mest, double superlative suffix, equivalent to -ma superlative suffix (as in Old English forma first; compare Latin prīmus) + -est¹; later identified with most Related Words inmost aftermost bottommost easternmost eastmost endmost -mosta suffixal use of most found in a series of superlatives, as in utmost, foremost. [Middle English -most; replacing Middle English and Old English -mest, a double superlative suffix, from -ma + -est, both forming superlatives] -most adjective suffix ETYMOLOGY Middle English, alteration of -mest (as in formest foremost) : most innermost : most toward headmost -most /məʊst/ suffix forming superlative adjectives and adverbs from prepositions and other words indicating relative position ［由介词和其他表示相对位置的词构成最高级形容词和副词］表示“最”： innermost uppermost. 词源 Old English -mest, assimilated to MOST. -most, suffix\|məʊst, məst\|forming adjs. in the superlative degree (many of which are also used as advs.), is an altered form of OE. -mest (= Goth. -umist), a combination of two distinct OTeut. (and Indogermanic) superlative suffixes, -mo- (which occurs, e.g., in OE. forma first, hindema last, and in L. prīmus first), and -isto- -est. Those OE. superlatives in -mest which either descend from OTeut., or are extensions of OTeut. superlatives in -mo-, are formed not on adjs. but on prepositional or demonstrative stems; examples are æftemest (see aftermost), formest or fyrmest foremost, inmest inmost, niðemest lowest, ufemest or yfemest (see ovemest), útmest or ýtmest utmost, ýmest (= Goth. auhumists) highest; the only instance (among the words belonging to this primary group) of formation on an adj.-stem is midmest midmost. On the analogy of these older words, the suffix -mest was in OE. used to form superlatives of several adjs. of local and temporal signification, as lætmest, síðemest latest, éastmest, westmest (also westema), norðmest, súðmest.In late OE. the adjs. in -mest came to be regarded as compounds of mǽst most, as the frequent spelling -mæst shows. The subsequent history of the written form of the suffix coincides with that of the adj., exc. that the absence of stress led to the occasional retention of the spelling -mest (beside the quasi-etymological -most) down to the 16th c. In mod. English the formal pronunciation of the suffix is assimilated to that of the adj., though colloq. the normal pronunciation \|məst\| is usual.As the superlatives in -mest, -most corresponded to comparatives in -er, analogy led to the insertion of r or er before the suffix: thus aftemest was in early ME. altered to aftermest, and ovemest was replaced by overmost. In the 15th and 16th c. the suffix -most (interpreted as identical with most a.) was added to many comparatives in -er, on the analogy of earlier adverbial formations in -more, as in furthermost, hindermost, innermost, lowermost, outermost, uppermost, uttermost.In ME. and modern English, the suffix has been appended to certain positive adjs.; to ns. used adjectively, as in backmost, bottommost, topmost; and to advs., as in downmost, upmost, hithermost.The restriction of the application of the suffix to words denoting position in place, time, or serial order, which existed in OE., has almost universally been adhered to in the subsequent formations; the only exception, in a word that has obtained any degree of currency, is bettermost. The only other violations of the rule occur in mere nonce-words, as in the following quot.a1618Sylvester Ded. Sonn. i, To Maidens Blush, Accept a Heart which to Your Highnesse owes whole Hecatombs of Happy-most Desires. -most superlative suffix of adjectives and adverbs, Middle English alteration (by influence of unrelated most) of Old English -mest, a double superlative, from -mo, -ma (cognate with Latin -mus; compare Old English forma "first," meduma "midmost") + -est. -most /məʊst/ suffix. OE. ORIGIN: Old English -mest, from Germanic superl. suffix with -m- + base of -est¹, but long regarded as from most adjective. Forming superlative adjectives and adverbs from words denoting position in space, time, or serial order, viz. (a) prepositions, as foremost, inmost, utmost; (b) compars. in -er, as furthermost, innermost, uttermost; (c) positive adjectives, as backmost, topmost. ☞ most -most \ˌmōst also chiefly Brit _məst\ adjective suffix Etymology: Middle English -mast, -most, alteration (influenced by mast, most most) of -mest (as in formest foremost) : most < innermost > : most toward < headmost > -most Suffix Furthest; -est; used to form superlatives of certain adjectives, especially directional and inherently-comparative ones. Etymology Old English -mest, conflated with most; from Proto-Germanic superlative suffix -umistaz, from the comparative suffix -umô + the regular superlative suffix -istaz (English -est); -umô in turn is from Proto-Indo-European -mHo-. See foremost* for more. Usage notes No longer productive in contemporary English. Coordinate terms -more Derived terms ► English words suffixed with -most bottommost easternmost eastmost eldermost farmost foremost furthermost hindmost innermost juniormost lattermost leftmost nearmost northmost northernmost outermost rightmost seniormost southernmost southmost topmost upmost uppermost utmost westmost westernmost 后缀：-most [形容词后缀] 表示最...的 easternmost 最东的 westernmost 最西的 topmost 最高的 lowermost 最低的 uppermost 最高的 rearmost 最后面的 middlemost 最当中的 headmost 最前面的 aftermost 最后面的 inmost 最里面的 outmost 最外面的 foremost 最前面的 hindmost 最后面的 farmost 最远的
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