Where does “kíváncsiság” come from?
kíváncsiság (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian kíváncsi, from Hungarian kíván, from Hungarian van, from Hungarian kedve, from Hungarian -é, from Albanian -ë, from Proto-West Germanic -jā, from Proto-Indo-European -íh₂ — Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...
kíváncsiság (Hungarian): curiosity
Definitions
- curiosity
Ancestry of “kíváncsiság”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | kíváncsi | curious |
| 2 | Hungarian | kíván | to desire, fancy, want, long for something; to... |
| 3 | Hungarian | van | to be, to exist; to have; someone has something;... |
| 4 | Hungarian | kedve | third-person singular single-possession... |
| 5 | Hungarian | -é | Used to form the lative, expressing the direction... |
| 6 | Albanian | -ë | -ing, -ion |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | -jā | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -íh₂ | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -h₂ | Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups... |