Where does “főnévragozás” come from?

főnévragozás (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian főnév, from Hungarian fő, from Hungarian fej, from Proto-Uralic päŋe — head.

főnévragozás (Hungarian): declension the act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun [sometimes more broadly also pronouns and/or adjectives] in order

Definitions

  1. declension the act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun [sometimes more broadly also pronouns and/or adjectives] in order

Ancestry of “főnévragozás”, step by step

főnévragozás traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian főnév

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianfőnévsubstantive, noun
2Hungarianmain, principal, key, chief, cardinal, core, most...
3Hungarianfejhead; head, mind, brain, intellect; heads,...
4Proto-Uralicpäŋehead

via Hungarian ragozás

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianragozásinflection, conjugation, declension
2Hungarianragozto inflect, decline, conjugate to vary the form of a word to express case, tense, gender, number, mood, etc
3Hungarianrágto chew
4Proto-Uralicruŋke-gnaw
Every word from Proto-Uralic päŋeEvery word from Hungarian fejEvery word from Hungarian