Where does “mindenekelőtt” come from?
mindenekelőtt (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian mindenek, from Hungarian minden, from Hungarian -én, from Hungarian -é, from Albanian -ë, from Proto-West Germanic -jā, from Proto-Indo-European -íh₂, from Proto-Indo-European -h₂ — Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...
mindenekelőtt (Hungarian): above all, first of all (before everything else)
Definitions
- above all, first of all (before everything else)
Ancestry of “mindenekelőtt”, step by step
mindenekelőtt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian mindenek
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | mindenek | Archaic nominative plural form of minden |
| 2 | Hungarian | minden | every; all, everything; thing |
| 3 | Hungarian | -én | on the specified day of the month attached to numbers with a hyphen, omitting the dot that indicates ordinal numbers |
| 4 | Hungarian | -é | Used to form the lative, expressing the direction... |
| 5 | Albanian | -ë | -ing, -ion |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | -jā | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -íh₂ | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -h₂ | Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups... |