Where does “ördögi kör” come from?
ördögi kör (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian kör, from French Cœur, from Middle French cœur, from Old French cuer, from Vulgar Latin *corem, from Latin cor, from Proto-Italic kord, from Proto-Indo-European ḱḗr — heart.
ördögi kör (Hungarian): vicious circle
Definitions
- vicious circle
Ancestry of “ördögi kör”, step by step
ördögi kör traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian kör
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | kör | circle; circle, ring, company; round, lap |
| 2 | French | Cœur | heart |
| 3 | Middle French | cœur | Alternative form of coeur |
| 4 | Old French | cuer | heart |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | *corem | — |
| 6 | Latin | cor | heart; soul, mind |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | kord | heart |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱḗr | heart |
via Hungarian ördögi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | ördögi | demonic, devilish, hellish, satanic, vicious |
| 2 | Hungarian | -i | Added to a proper noun, noun or postposition to... |
| 3 | Hungarian | -é | Used to form the lative, expressing the direction... |
| 4 | Albanian | -ë | -ing, -ion |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | -jā | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -íh₂ | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -h₂ | Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups... |