Where does “csúnya, mint a bűn” come from?

csúnya, mint a bűn (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.

csúnya, mint a bűn (Hungarian): ugly as sin

Definitions

  1. ugly as sin

Ancestry of “csúnya, mint a bűn”, step by step

csúnya, mint a bűn traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian a

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianathe; this; that
2Frenchàto; on the, to; at
3Englishavieemulously
4Frenchenviedesire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy
5Latininvidiaenvy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an...
6Latininvidusenvious; hostile, inimical
7LatininvideoI look askance or maliciously at, cast an evil...
8Latinīn-un-, non-, not
9Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
10Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
11Proto-Italicenin
12Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via Hungarian mint

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianmintthan; as …… as; like
2Hungarian-tUsed to form the accusative case; -ed, -t. Used...
3Proto-Uralic-tt

via Hungarian csúnya

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungariancsúnyaugly
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én