Where does “maga alatt vágja a fát” come from?
maga alatt vágja a fát (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian a, from French à, from English avie, from French envie, from Latin invidia, from Latin invidus, from Latin invideo, from Latin īn- — in.
maga alatt vágja a fát (Hungarian): to saw off the branch one is sitting on, to shoot oneself in the foot to act against one's own interests, to act self-destructively
Definitions
- to saw off the branch one is sitting on, to shoot oneself in the foot to act against one's own interests, to act self-destructively
Ancestry of “maga alatt vágja a fát”, step by step
maga alatt vágja a fát traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian a
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 2 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 3 | English | avie | emulously |
| 4 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 5 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 6 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 7 | Latin | invideo | I look askance or maliciously at, cast an evil... |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 9 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |