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English word all comes from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-, and later Proto-Germanic *allaz (All.)

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*h₂el- (Proto-Indo-European)

to raise, feed, nourish, beyond, to grow

*h₂elnós (Proto-Indo-European)

*allaz (Proto-Germanic)

All.

eall (Old English)

(West Saxon) fully (West Saxon) all.

all (Middle English)

all (English)

(countable) The totality of one's possessions.. (with a possessive pronoun) Everything that one is capable of. Everyone.. Everything. (degree) So much.. (degree) intensifier.. (obsolete, poetic) even; just. (poetic) Entirely.. Apiece; each. (dialect, Pennsylvania) All gone; dead. (obsolete) Any.. Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase [...]

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