Where does “keretelem” come from?

keretelem (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...

keretelem (Hungarian): box-drawing character text character used for creating geometric frames and boxes

Definitions

  1. box-drawing character text character used for creating geometric frames and boxes

Ancestry of “keretelem”, step by step

keretelem traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian elem

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianelembattery; chemical element; element, component
2Hungarian-emUsed to form the first-person singular present...
3Hungarian-énon the specified day of the month attached to numbers with a hyphen, omitting the dot that indicates ordinal numbers
4HungarianUsed to form the lative, expressing the direction...
5Albanian-ing, -ion
6Proto-West Germanic-jā
7Proto-Indo-European-íh₂
8Proto-Indo-European-h₂Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...

via Hungarian kéret

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungariankéretcausative of kér: to summon someone, to ask...
2Hungarian-etAdded to a verb to form a verb with a meaning of...
3Hungarian-é-
4Hungarian-dyour; Used in the second-person singular definite...
5Middle Welsh-nt3rd person plural verb ending
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -h₂Every word from Hungarian Every word from Proto-West Germanic -jā