Where does “felezőpont” come from?
felezőpont (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian pont, from German Punkt, from Latin pūnctum, from Latin punctus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.
felezőpont (Hungarian): midpoint a point which divides a line segment into two lines of equal length
Definitions
- midpoint a point which divides a line segment into two lines of equal length
Ancestry of “felezőpont”, step by step
felezőpont traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian pont
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | pont | exactly, just, precisely; point; dot, full stop,... |
| 2 | German | Punkt | dot; full stop, period; decimal point, point,... |
| 3 | Latin | pūnctum | point |
| 4 | Latin | punctus | pricked, punctured, pierced, having been pricked;... |
| 5 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |
via Hungarian felező
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | felező | bisecting |
| 2 | Hungarian | felez | to halve, bisect to divide into two halves |
| 3 | Hungarian | fél | to fear, to be afraid of something; to fear... |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | pide | tall |
| 5 | Finnish | pitää | to hold, grasp, grip; to keep, take; to like, be... |
| 6 | Proto-Finnic | pitädäk | to hold, to grasp; to keep |
| 7 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | pitä- | — |