Where does “ehelyett” come from?
ehelyett (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian helyett, from Hungarian -ett, from Hungarian -é-, from Hungarian -d, from Middle Welsh -nt — 3rd person plural verb ending.
ehelyett (Hungarian): instead of this
Ancestry of “ehelyett”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Hungarian | helyett | instead of, in lieu of, in place of, rather than |
| 2 | Hungarian | -ett | -ed, -t; in |
| 3 | Hungarian | -é- | — |
| 4 | Hungarian | -d | your; Used in the second-person singular definite... |
| 5 | Middle Welsh | -nt | 3rd person plural verb ending |