else是什么意思（else的用法）
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一、else是什么意思
1、else 其它的
2、來自PIE*al, 其它，詞源同alias, alien.
二、else的用法
1、else
2、else: [OE] Else shares its sense of ‘otherness’ with related words in other parts of the Indo- European language family. It comes ultimately from the base *al-, which also produced Latin alter ‘other’ (source of English alter) and alius ‘other’ (source of English alibi and alien) and Greek állos ‘other’ (source of the prefix allo- in such English words as allopathy, allophone, and allotropy). Its Germanic descendant was *aljo- ‘other’, whose genitive neuter case *aljaz, used adverbially, eventually became English else.=> alibi, alien, alter
3、else (adv.)
4、Old English elles"in another manner, other, otherwise, besides, different,"from Proto-Germanic *aljaz (cognates: Gothic aljis"other,"Old High German eli-lenti, Old English el-lende, both meaning"in a foreign land;"see also Alsace), an adverbial genitive of the neuter of PIE root *al- (1)"beyond"(cognates: Greek allos"other,"Latin alius; see alias (adv.)). As a quasi-adjective, synonymous with other, from 1660s; the nuances of usage are often arbitrary. Productive of a number of handy compounds that somehow never got traction or have been suffered to fall from use: elsehow (1660s)"somehow or other;"elsewards (adv.), 1882,"somewhere else;"Old English elsewhat (pron.)"something else, anything else;"elsewhen (adv.), early 15c.,"at another time; elsewhence (c. 1600); elsewho (1540s). Among the survivors are elsewhere, elsewise. Menacing or else, with omitted but implied threat, is from 1833.
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