Where does “ébenfák” come from?
ébenfák (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian ébenfa, from Hungarian ében, from Hungarian eb, from Hungarian adta, from Hungarian ád, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille — that.
Ancestry of “ébenfák”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | ébenfa | ebony |
| 2 | Hungarian | ében | ebony |
| 3 | Hungarian | eb | dog |
| 4 | Hungarian | adta | third-person singular indicative past definite of... |
| 5 | Hungarian | ád | Alternative form of ad |
| 6 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 7 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 8 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 9 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |