Where does “képzetes szám” come from?

képzetes szám (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian képzetes, from Hungarian képzet, from Hungarian -et, from Hungarian -é-, from Hungarian -d, from Middle Welsh -nt — 3rd person plural verb ending.

képzetes szám (Hungarian): imaginary number a number of the form ai where a is any real number and i denotes the imaginary unit

Definitions

  1. imaginary number a number of the form ai where a is any real number and i denotes the imaginary unit

Ancestry of “képzetes szám”, step by step

képzetes szám traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian képzetes

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianképzetesimaginary, unreal
2Hungarianképzetidea, notion, image
3Hungarian-etAdded to a verb to form a verb with a meaning of...
4Hungarian-é-
5Hungarian-dyour; Used in the second-person singular definite...
6Middle Welsh-nt3rd person plural verb ending

via Hungarian szám

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianszámnumber; number, figure, numeric, data; number,...
2Hungarianszájmouth, oral
3Proto-Uralicśoximouth
Every word from Middle Welsh -ntEvery word from Hungarian -etEvery word from Hungarian -d
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