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Where does “képtelenek” come from?

képtelenek (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian képtelen, 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...

képtelenek (Hungarian): nominative plural of képtelen

Definitions

  1. nominative plural of képtelen

Ancestry of “képtelenek”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianképtelenunable, incapable; absurd, preposterous,...
2Hungarian-telen-less, un-, dis-. A privative suffix added to a...
3Hungariantelefull; telephoto lens; third-person singular...
4Hungarian-éUsed to form the lative, expressing the direction...
5Albanian-ë-ing, -ion
6Proto-West Germanic-jā—
7Proto-Indo-European-íh₂—
8Proto-Indo-European-h₂Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...
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