Where does “megbánt” come from?

megbánt (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian bánt, from Hungarian bánik, from Hungarian bán, from Old Hungarian ban.

megbánt (Hungarian): to offend someone

Definitions

  1. to offend someone

Ancestry of “megbánt”, step by step

megbánt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian bánt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianbántto hurt, harm; third-person singular indicative...
2Hungarianbánikto treat someone, handle someone, deal with...
3Hungarianbánto mind, to object to, to be bothered by; to...
4Old Hungarianban

via Hungarian megbán

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianmegbánto regret
2Hungarianmeg-A verbal prefix with the following meanings
Every word from Old Hungarian banEvery word from Hungarian bánEvery word from Hungarian bánik
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