Where does “amíg” come from?
amíg (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian az, from Hungarian a, from French à, from English avie, from French envie, from Latin invidia, from Latin invidus, from Latin invideo — in.
amíg (Hungarian): as long as, while
Definitions
- as long as, while
Ancestry of “amíg”, step by step
amíg traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian az
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | az | the; that |
| 2 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 3 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 4 | English | avie | emulously |
| 5 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 6 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 7 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 8 | Latin | invideo | I look askance or maliciously at, cast an evil... |
| 9 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 10 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 11 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Hungarian míg
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | míg | as long as, while; till, until |
| 2 | Hungarian | -ég | Added to a stem - often an onomatopoeia - to form a verb expressing a (quickly) repeating or continuous action |
| 3 | Hungarian | -é- | — |
| 4 | Hungarian | -d | your; Used in the second-person singular definite... |
| 5 | Middle Welsh | -nt | 3rd person plural verb ending |