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-most
superlative suffix of adjectives and adverbs, Middle English alteration (by influence of unrelated
most
) of Old English
-mest
, a double superlative, from
-mo
,
-ma
(cognate with Latin
-mus
; compare Old English
forma
"first,"
meduma
"midmost") +
-est
.