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Many, few, several, are words of the same order, significant of number indefinitely.

None, or not one, implies the negation of all number, exclusive even of unity itself.

Other, which is improperly considered by some as a pronoun, is the Saxon oðer coming from oððe. The Arabic ahd, the Hebrew had, or ahad, the Saxon oððe, the Teutonic odo, and the Swedish udda, with our English word odd, seem all to have sprung from the same origin, the etymon expressing “one separately,” or “one by itself,” answering nearly to the Latin singulus. The English word odd plainly indicates its affinity to these words. We say, “He is an odd character,” or “singular character.” “He had some odd ones,” that is, “some separate from the rest,” not paired, or connected with them, “single.”[26]

“As he in soueraine dignity is odde,

So will he in loue no parting fellowes have.”

Sir T. More’s Works.

The same idea of singularity and separation is expressed by other; which is now generally used as a comparative, and followed by than.