Where does “agyhalott” come from?

agyhalott (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian halott, from Hungarian -ött, from Hungarian -ö-, from Hungarian -d, from Middle Welsh -nt — 3rd person plural verb ending.

agyhalott (Hungarian): brain-dead

Definitions

  1. brain-dead

Ancestry of “agyhalott”, step by step

agyhalott traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian halott

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianhalottdead, deceased; a dead person; corpse
2Hungarian-ött-ed, -t; in
3Hungarian-ö-linking vowel
4Hungarian-dyour; Used in the second-person singular definite...
5Middle Welsh-nt3rd person plural verb ending

via Hungarian ágy

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianágybed
2Proto-Finno-Ugricajŋebrain
Every word from Middle Welsh -nt →Every word from Hungarian -d →Every word from Hungarian -ött →