Where does “-tem” come from?
-tem (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian -em, from Hungarian -én, 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...
-tem (Hungarian): Used to form the first-person singular past tense...
Definitions
- Used to form the first-person singular past tense...
Ancestry of “-tem”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | -em | Used to form the first-person singular present... |
| 2 | Hungarian | -én | on the specified day of the month attached to numbers with a hyphen, omitting the dot that indicates ordinal numbers |
| 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... |