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