Where does “hiven” come from?
hiven (Finnish) comes from Hungarian hisz, from Hungarian hiszen, from Hungarian hiszem, from Hungarian -em, from Hungarian -én, from Hungarian -é, from Albanian -ë, from Proto-West Germanic -jā — Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...
hiven (Finnish): A trifle, bit
Definitions
- A trifle, bit
Ancestry of “hiven”, step by step
hiven traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian hisz
| 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... |
via Hungarian hív
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | hív | to call to request, summon, or beckon |
| 2 | Proto-Uralic | kaŋe- | call |
| 3 | Kapampangan | ne | blend of 3rd person singular possessive/ergative pronoun + 3rd person singular absolutive pronoun |
| 4 | Kapampangan | na | 3rd person singular possessive/ergative pronoun: he; his; she; her; it; its |
| 5 | Kapampangan | nanu | what |
| 6 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | anu | what? |
| 7 | Proto-Austronesian | (na-)nu | what |