Etymology Explorer › Hungarian

Where does “-enie” come from?

-enie (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian -nie, from Hungarian -é, from Albanian -ë, from Proto-West Germanic -jā, from Proto-Indo-European -íh₂, from Proto-Indo-European -h₂ — Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...

-enie (Hungarian): Used to form the third-person singular and the...

Definitions

  1. Used to form the third-person singular and the...

Ancestry of “-enie”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarian-nieUsed to form the third-person singular and the...
2Hungarian-éUsed to form the lative, expressing the direction...
3Albanian-ë-ing, -ion
4Proto-West Germanic-jā—
5Proto-Indo-European-íh₂—
6Proto-Indo-European-h₂Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...

Words derived from “-enie”

  • festenie
  • kellenie
  • küldenie
  • veszítenie
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -h₂ →