Where does “melegágy” come from?
melegágy (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian meleg, from Hungarian -get, from Hungarian -et, from Hungarian -é-, from Hungarian -d, from Middle Welsh -nt — 3rd person plural verb ending.
melegágy (Hungarian): hotbed
Ancestry of “melegágy”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Hungarian | meleg | warm; hot; heartfelt, cordial, warm |
| 2 | Hungarian | -get | Mostly added to transitive verbs to form new... |
| 3 | Hungarian | -et | Added to a verb to form a verb with a meaning of... |
| 4 | Hungarian | -é- | — |
| 5 | Hungarian | -d | your; Used in the second-person singular definite... |
| 6 | Middle Welsh | -nt | 3rd person plural verb ending |