Where does “lett” come from?
lett (Hungarian) comes from German Lette, from Latvian latvis, from Latvian latuvis, from Latvian Latuva.
lett (Hungarian): third-person singular indicative past indefinite...
Definitions
- third-person singular indicative past indefinite...
Ancestry of “lett”, step by step
lett traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Lette
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | German | Lette | Latvian |
| 2 | Latvian | latvis | a Latvian, a Lett; a member of the Latvian... |
| 3 | Latvian | latuvis | — |
| 4 | Latvian | Latuva | — |
via Hungarian lesz
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | lesz | will be; must be, have to be; to become, come... |
| 2 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | le- | to become; to be, exist, will be, live |
Words derived from “lett”