Where does “legmegnyugtatóbb” come from?
legmegnyugtatóbb (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian megnyugtatóbb, from Hungarian megnyugtató, from Hungarian megnyugtat, from Hungarian nyugtat, from Hungarian nyugszik, from Hungarian -szik, from Hungarian -sz, from Proto-Slavic sь — whale, sea monster; abyss.
Ancestry of “legmegnyugtatóbb”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | megnyugtatóbb | — |
| 2 | Hungarian | megnyugtató | present participle of megnyugtat; comforting,... |
| 3 | Hungarian | megnyugtat | to calm, to soothe, to ease, to reassure someone |
| 4 | Hungarian | nyugtat | to rest, repose; to calm, still, quiet, reassure,... |
| 5 | Hungarian | nyugszik | to rest; to set |
| 6 | Hungarian | -szik | Appended to a noun, adjective, verb or other stem... |
| 7 | Hungarian | -sz | Used to form the second-person singular present... |
| 8 | Proto-Slavic | sь | this |
| 9 | Proto-Balto-Slavic | śis | this here |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱís | this |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 12 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 13 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 14 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 15 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |