Where does “a baj nem jár egyedül” come from?
a baj nem jár egyedül (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian a, from French à, from English avie, from French envie, from Latin invidia, from Latin invidus, from Latin invideo, from Latin īn- — in.
a baj nem jár egyedül (Hungarian): when it rains, it pours, it never rains but it pours, misfortunes never come singly unfortunate events occur in quantity
Definitions
- when it rains, it pours, it never rains but it pours, misfortunes never come singly unfortunate events occur in quantity
Ancestry of “a baj nem jár egyedül”, step by step
a baj nem jár egyedül traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian a
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 2 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 3 | English | avie | emulously |
| 4 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 5 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 6 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 7 | Latin | invideo | I look askance or maliciously at, cast an evil... |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 9 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Hungarian egyedül
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | egyedül | alone, by oneself, on one's own; exclusively |
| 2 | Hungarian | egyed | individual; entity; Alternative form of edd,... |
| 3 | Hungarian | egy | one; a, an; same |
| 4 | Hungarian | -én | on the specified day of the month attached to numbers with a hyphen, omitting the dot that indicates ordinal numbers |
| 5 | Hungarian | -é | Used to form the lative, expressing the direction... |
| 6 | Albanian | -ë | -ing, -ion |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | -jā | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -íh₂ | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -h₂ | Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups... |