Where does “egy-két” come from?
egy-két (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian egy, from Hungarian -én, from Hungarian -é, from Albanian -ë, from Proto-West Germanic -jā, from Proto-Indo-European -íh₂, from Proto-Indo-European -h₂ — Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...
egy-két (Hungarian): one or two, a few, a number of, some
Definitions
- one or two, a few, a number of, some
Ancestry of “egy-két”, step by step
egy-két traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian egy
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | egy | one; a, an; same |
| 2 | Hungarian | -én | on the specified day of the month attached to numbers with a hyphen, omitting the dot that indicates ordinal numbers |
| 3 | Hungarian | -é | Used to form the lative, expressing the direction... |
| 4 | Albanian | -ë | -ing, -ion |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | -jā | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -íh₂ | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -h₂ | Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups... |