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Sooth or truth?
Sooth (sōþ) has an oldfangled ring to it and it is often noted as a likeword of Truth (tríewþ), but in sooth sooth and truth are thinly missen. Sooth ("reality", but as both n. and adj.) is the suchness of something that bestands, while truth ("verity") is the suchness of something that is faithful to the soothness.
Right ("correct") is a roughly a likeword of true in the meaning of faithful, but not bestanding. Also, the Old English word wǣr —kindred to Theedishland's wahr— is a kinword of Latinish verus, all from the word *wer in the old frumspeak that in new English is called Proto-Indo-European.
Strengtheners[]
In English, "very" and "really" are now mere strengtheners ("intensifiers"). In the moot, swathe (swíðe, strengthening), mighty, highly, so, sore/sorely are noted.