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===Adjectives=== | ===Adjectives=== | ||
The most common way to express 'very, extreme(ly), great(ly)' was to use the prefix ''ru-'' (which caused mutation; borrowed from Proto-Celtic ''*ɸro-''; cognate to Irish ''ró-'', Welsh ''rhy'', both 'too, excessively'). At first only adjectives could take this prefix, but later it was also used on nouns. | The most common way to express 'very, extreme(ly), great(ly)' was to use the prefix ''ru-'' (which caused mutation; borrowed from Proto-Celtic ''*ɸro-''; cognate to Irish ''ró-'', Welsh ''rhy'', both 'too, excessively'). At first only adjectives could take this prefix, but later it was also used on nouns (influenced by Biblical Hebrew רוב *rubb 'multitude' used before a noun). | ||
===Verbs=== | ===Verbs=== | ||