The building blocks of English
Affixes
-most
Superlative adjectives and adverbs.
Old English ‑mest.
Such superlatives are formed from prepositions, adjectives, and comparatives that indicate some relative position, either literal or figurative: easternmost, foremost, hindmost, innermost, topmost, utmost (Old English ūt, out).
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