Where does “hives” come from?
Hives derives from Middle English hyfe, Old English hȳf, Proto-West Germanic hūfi, and Proto-Indo-European kuHp- and kew-, with the original sense relating to a rounded or curved structure.
hives (English): Itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can...
Definitions
- Itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can...
Ancestry of “hives”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | hisz | to believe, have faith in; to think; as, because;... |
| 2 | Hungarian | hiszen | as, because; said if something follows obviously... |
| 3 | Hungarian | hiszem | first-person singular indicative present definite... |
| 4 | Hungarian | -em | Used to form the first-person singular present... |
| 5 | Hungarian | -én | on the specified day of the month attached to numbers with a hyphen, omitting the dot that indicates ordinal numbers |
| 6 | Hungarian | -é | Used to form the lative, expressing the direction... |
| 7 | Albanian | -ë | -ing, -ion |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | -jā | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -íh₂ | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -h₂ | Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups... |