all-

From Middle English all- (also al-), from Old English eall-, eal- (“all-”). Cognate with Dutch al-, German all-, Swedish all-. More at all.

all-

1. Indicates complete power or authority in an area.

   Synonym: omni-

   ‎all- + ‎knowing → ‎all-knowing

   ‎all- + ‎loving → ‎all-loving

   ‎all- + ‎seeing → ‎all-seeing

   ‎all- + ‎powerful → ‎all-powerful

   ‎all- + ‎important → ‎all-important

2. Indicates that a term applies in a general manner.

   Synonyms: omni-, pan-

   ‎all- + ‎around → ‎all-around

   ‎all- + ‎over → ‎all-over

   ‎all- + ‎India → ‎all-India

   ‎all- + ‎Union → ‎all-Union = union-level scope

3. (sports) Alternative letter-case form of All-.

• Words derived from all- are usually formed with a hyphen.

• (all): omni-, pan-

• -wide

• LAL, Lal, Lal.

From all.

all-

1. located beneath, at the bottom, nether, sub-

all-

1. fairly, rather, decently [since the 17th century]

   Synonyms: sæmilega, heldur, nokkuð

2. (dated) very

   Synonyms: mjög, einkar

   Ekki allfáir viðskiptavinir.

   Very many customers.

• Hyphenating compound terms prefixed with all- is allowed (same with hálf-, jafn- and lang-):^[1]

  All-óhugnanlegur.

  Rather gruesome.

• allfár (“very few (dated, synonym mjög fár)”)
• allgóður (“very good (dated, synonym mjög góður); decent (contemporary meaning, synonym sæmilegur)”)
• allmikill (“considerable”)
• allvel (“very well (dated, synonym mjög vel); reasonably (contemporary meaning, synonym sæmilega)”)
• enginn er allheimskur ef þegja má (“no one is completely stupid if they can hold their silence; silence is golden”)

• dá- (“rather, fairly, quite”)

From Proto-Germanic *ala-, spelling due to influence of allr (“all”).

all-

1. alternative spelling of al-

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “all-”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 9; also available at the Internet Archive

From Proto-Celtic *alyos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos. Cognate with Old English el-, Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /aɬ/

all-

1. out, off, ex-, extra-

   Synonyms: ech-, es-

   ‎all- + ‎morio (“to travel by sea”) → ‎allforio (“to export”)

   ‎all- + ‎plyg (“folded”) → ‎allblyg (“extrovert”)

   ‎all- + ‎pwn (“load, burden”) → ‎allbwn (“output”)

2. other, allo-

   ‎all- + ‎tud (“people, nation”) → ‎alltud (“stranger; exile”)

   ‎all- + ‎ffôn (“phone”) → ‎allffon (“allophone”)

• mewn- (“in-”)

R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “all-”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies