(1) Alcüs ＜ ✱_alĭqu’ ūnus_ = _alĭquī ūnus_, ‘someone’. Inflection:
alcüs, alcü(n); alcüna.
(2) Alquant ＜ _aliquantum_, _aliquanti_, ‘somewhat’, ‘some’;
diminutive, alquantet.
(3) Alques alque ＜ _alĭquĭd_, used as an invariable neuter pronoun
or adverb, ‘something’, ‘somewhat’. The -s form, which originally
developed before a vowel, was preferred because of the analogy of
other neuter pronouns and adverbs. The preservation of the e is due to
association with quez que. Alque was sometimes used as an adjective.
(4) Als al au, used as an invariable neuter pronoun, ‘something else’.
Al (au) may have been detached from alques, understood as al ques.
Meyer-Lübke, however, takes it, as well as Old French el, from ✱_alum_
= _aliud_: _Gram._, II, p. 649. Als owes its -s to the analogy of other
neuter pronouns, such as alques, ẹis, mais, męlhs, mẹns, pęis, etc.
(5) Altre autre ＜ _alter_, ‘other’, pronoun and adjective. A dative
✱_altrūī_, following _illūī_, goes back to Vulgar Latin. The Provençal
forms autrüs, autrü show the influence of alcüs and negüs; autri
belongs to the southeastern dialects (cf. aquẹli, ẹli, nǫstri, tüti,
etc.). Inflection:--