Where does “ütött-kopott” come from?
ütött-kopott (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian kopott, from Hungarian kopik, from Hungarian köp, from Hungarian -köd, from Hungarian -k, from Hungarian -ö-, from Hungarian -d, from Middle Welsh -nt — 3rd person plural verb ending.
ütött-kopott (Hungarian): tumbledown, battered, tattered
Definitions
- tumbledown, battered, tattered
Ancestry of “ütött-kopott”, step by step
ütött-kopott traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian kopott
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | kopott | third-person singular indicative past indefinite... |
| 2 | Hungarian | kopik | to become threadbare, to get thin from wear; to... |
| 3 | Hungarian | köp | to spit; to squeak, squeal, rat |
| 4 | Hungarian | -köd | Added to a monosyllabic verb to form a new verb expressing repetitive action. No longer productive |
| 5 | Hungarian | -k | -s, -es; Denotes the first-person singular... |
| 6 | Hungarian | -ö- | linking vowel |
| 7 | Hungarian | -d | your; Used in the second-person singular definite... |
| 8 | Middle Welsh | -nt | 3rd person plural verb ending |