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Where does “hirtelen” come from?

hirtelen (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian -telen, from Hungarian tele, 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...

hirtelen (Hungarian): sudden; suddenly, all of a sudden

Definitions

  1. sudden; suddenly, all of a sudden

Ancestry of “hirtelen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarian-telen-less, un-, dis-. A privative suffix added to a...
2Hungariantelefull; telephoto lens; third-person singular...
3Hungarian-éUsed to form the lative, expressing the direction...
4Albanian-ë-ing, -ion
5Proto-West Germanic-jā—
6Proto-Indo-European-íh₂—
7Proto-Indo-European-h₂Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...

Words derived from “hirtelen”

  • hirtelenebb
  • leghirtelenebb
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