Where does “egyvalaki” come from?

egyvalaki (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...

egyvalaki (Hungarian): one single person

Definitions

  1. one single person

Ancestry of “egyvalaki”, step by step

egyvalaki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian egy

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianegyone; a, an; same
2Hungarian-énon the specified day of the month attached to numbers with a hyphen, omitting the dot that indicates ordinal numbers
3HungarianUsed to form the lative, expressing the direction...
4Albanian-ing, -ion
5Proto-West Germanic-jā
6Proto-Indo-European-íh₂
7Proto-Indo-European-h₂Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...

via Hungarian valaki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianvalakisomebody, someone; abbreviated as vki
2Hungarianvala-some-
3Zouva̋bird
4Proto-Kuki-Chin*waa
5Proto-Sino-Tibetan*waʔbird, fowl
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -h₂Every word from Hungarian Every word from Proto-West Germanic -jā