Where does “fején találja a szöget” come from?
fején találja a szöget (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian a, from French à, from English avie, from French envie, from Latin invidia, from Latin invidus, from Latin invideo, from Latin īn- — in.
fején találja a szöget (Hungarian): to hit the nail on the head to identify something exactly; to arrive at exactly the right answer
Definitions
- to hit the nail on the head to identify something exactly; to arrive at exactly the right answer
Ancestry of “fején találja a szöget”, step by step
fején találja a szöget traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian a
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 2 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 3 | English | avie | emulously |
| 4 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 5 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 6 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 7 | Latin | invideo | I look askance or maliciously at, cast an evil... |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 9 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Hungarian szög
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | szög | nail; angle; angle, viewing direction |
| 2 | Hungarian | sző | to weave; to spin; to plot |
| 3 | Hungarian | -et | Added to a verb to form a verb with a meaning of... |
| 4 | Hungarian | -é- | — |
| 5 | Hungarian | -d | your; Used in the second-person singular definite... |
| 6 | Middle Welsh | -nt | 3rd person plural verb ending |