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'extra' polarity?

Rick,
These are the polarities from Lexical Semantics, Appendix B:  

     bi-     maximal polarity
     ge-     high polarity
     jan-    average polarity
     vo-     low polarity
     zu-     minimal polarity
     ju-     0% polarity
     den-    too, excessively, over-
     boy-    enough, adequately, sufficiently
     vyu-    almost, not quite, nearly, all but, well-nigh
     jaw-    just, only, exclusively, simply
     zi-     about, approximately, circa, more or less
     gya-    exactly, precisely, no more and no less

And here are the current ones, in the same order:

bi  = maximal polarity
ge  = high polarity/big
jan  = average polarity
vo  = low polarity/small
zu  = minimal polarity
ju = zero/not/opposite/imaginary
dun  = excessive polarity
za  = own/possess/enough/sufficient polarity
day  = possible/potential/almost polarity
gan  = positive/gain/extra polarity
zwe  = free/unrestrained/uncertain/approximate polarity
bwa  = bound/restrained/certain/exact polarity

The third from last (formerly "jaw", now "gan") used to be 'just, only, exclusively, simply', and now it's the 'extra' polarity.  What does 'extra polarity' mean?

Steven