Where does “най” come from?

най (Bulgarian) comes from Proto-Slavic *najь- — used to form the superlative of adjectives and adverbs, taking the form of comparative as the basis; similar to most and -est.

най (Bulgarian): most, -est

Definitions

  1. most, -est

Ancestry of “най”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Slavic*najь-used to form the superlative of adjectives and adverbs, taking the form of comparative as the basis; similar to most and -est
Every word from Proto-Slavic *najь-