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Where does “alacsony” come from?

alacsony (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian ál, from Proto-Uralic ëla — below.

alacsony (Hungarian): short, low

Definitions

  1. short, low

Ancestry of “alacsony”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianálfalse, fake, sham, phoney, make-believe, bogus,...
2Proto-Uralicëlabelow

Words derived from “alacsony”

  • alacsonyak
  • legalacsonyabb
  • alacsonyabb
  • alacsonyakat
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