Where does “gombelem” come from?
gombelem (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian elem, from Hungarian -em, from Hungarian -én, from Hungarian -é, from Albanian -ë, from Proto-West Germanic -jā, from Proto-Indo-European -íh₂, from Proto-Indo-European -h₂ — Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...
gombelem (Hungarian): button cell, coin cell, watch battery a small single cell battery shaped as a squat cylinder resembling a button
Definitions
- button cell, coin cell, watch battery a small single cell battery shaped as a squat cylinder resembling a button
Ancestry of “gombelem”, step by step
gombelem traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian elem
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | elem | battery; chemical element; element, component |
| 2 | Hungarian | -em | Used to form the first-person singular present... |
| 3 | Hungarian | -én | on the specified day of the month attached to numbers with a hyphen, omitting the dot that indicates ordinal numbers |
| 4 | Hungarian | -é | Used to form the lative, expressing the direction... |
| 5 | Albanian | -ë | -ing, -ion |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | -jā | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -íh₂ | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -h₂ | Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups... |