Where does “ébenfekete” come from?
ébenfekete (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.
ébenfekete (Hungarian): ebony a deep, dark black colour
Definitions
- ebony a deep, dark black colour
Ancestry of “ébenfekete”, step by step
ébenfekete 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 |
via Hungarian fekete
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | fekete | black; tragic, mournful, black; illegal |
| 2 | Proto-Ugric | pᴕ̈kkɜ-ttɜ | black |