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Originally the neuter accusative plural of ἄλλος (állos, another, different) with shifted accent in an adverbial sense, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos (other).[1] Cognates include Latin alius, Old Irish aile, Old Armenian այլ (ayl), and Old English elles (English else).

ἀλλά (allá)

  1. but
  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀλλά”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 71