Where does “nilget” come from?

nilget (Ahtna) comes from Hungarian -get, from Hungarian -et, from Hungarian -é-, from Hungarian -d, from Middle Welsh -nt — 3rd person plural verb ending.

nilget (Ahtna): he/she is afraid

Definitions

  1. he/she is afraid

Ancestry of “nilget”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarian-getMostly added to transitive verbs to form new...
2Hungarian-etAdded to a verb to form a verb with a meaning of...
3Hungarian-é-—
4Hungarian-dyour; Used in the second-person singular definite...
5Middle Welsh-nt3rd person plural verb ending
Every word from Middle Welsh -nt →Every word from Hungarian -et →Every word from Hungarian -d →