Where does “mennyiség” come from?
mennyiség (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian mennyi, from Hungarian mi, from Uralic *mi.
mennyiség (Hungarian): quantity
Ancestry of “mennyiség”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | mennyi | API?; how much? |
| 2 | Hungarian | mi | we; how …!, what …!; what? |
| 3 | Uralic | *mi | — |
Words derived from “mennyiség”