Where does “BiH” come from?
BiH is the English acronym for Bosna i Hercegovina, the Serbo-Croatian name for the country Bosnia and Herzegovina.
BiH (English): Bosnia and Herzegovina
Definitions
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ancestry of “BiH”, step by step
BiH traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via English H
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | H | Abbreviation of hits; Abbreviation of heroin;... |
| 2 | Japanese | H | Alternative form of エッチ |
| 3 | Japanese | エッチ | Alternative form of エイチ; dirty; lewd; perverted;... |
| 4 | English | aitch | The name of the Latin-script letter H |
| 5 | Middle English | ache | Aching; long-lasting hurting or injury; A plant... |
| 6 | Old French | ache | — |
| 7 | Latin | apium | parsley; celery; genitive plural of apis |
| 8 | Latin | Apis | A seaport town of Egypt situated at the borders with Marmarica |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | Ἄπις | — |
| 10 | Coptic | ϩⲁⲡⲉ | the Apis bull, a bull worshipped as a herald of the gods (first Ptah, then Osiris, then Atum) |
| 11 | Egyptian | ḥp | the god Apis |
via English Bihari
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Bihari | Of, from or pertaining to Bihar or the Biharis |
| 2 | Hungarian | -i | Added to a proper noun, noun or postposition to... |
| 3 | Hungarian | -é | Used to form the lative, expressing the direction... |
| 4 | Albanian | -ë | -ing, -ion |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | -jā | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -íh₂ | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -h₂ | Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups... |