Where does “ősember” come from?

ősember (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian ős, from Proto-Uralic ićä — father.

ősember (Hungarian): prehistoric man

Definitions

  1. prehistoric man

Ancestry of “ősember”, step by step

ősember traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian ős

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianősancient, very old; mostly used in compounds as a...
2Proto-Uralicićäfather

via Hungarian ember

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianemberperson; human; mankind, humanity, man
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