Where does “-um” come from?

-um (Hungarian) comes from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.

-um (Hungarian): A distinguishable foreign word-ending in nouns of...

Definitions

  1. A distinguishable foreign word-ending in nouns of...

Ancestry of “-um”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
2Proto-Italic*-om—
3Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom →