Where does “elipszilon” come from?
elipszilon (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian ipszilon, from Latin ȳpsīlon, from Ancient Greek ὖ ψιλόν, from Phoenician 𐤅, from Egyptian 𓏲.
Ancestry of “elipszilon”, step by step
elipszilon traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian ipszilon
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | ipszilon | — |
| 2 | Latin | ȳpsīlon | — |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | ὖ ψιλόν | upsilon, the name for the twenty-first letter Υ,... |
| 4 | Phoenician | 𐤅 | waw; {{l|en|waw}} |
| 5 | Egyptian | 𓏲 | — |
via Hungarian él
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | él | to live; to live in a particular state; to use... |
| 2 | Proto-Ugric | elɜ | edge |