Where does “négyes fogat” come from?
négyes fogat (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian négyes, from Hungarian négy, from Hungarian dimenziós, from Hungarian dimenzió, from Latin dimensio, from Latin -tiō, from Latin dissertātiō, from Latin dissertus — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
négyes fogat (Hungarian): four-in-hand
Definitions
- four-in-hand
Ancestry of “négyes fogat”, step by step
négyes fogat traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian négyes
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | négyes | four-piece, quadruple, … of four; number four;... |
| 2 | Hungarian | négy | four |
| 3 | Hungarian | dimenziós | dimensional |
| 4 | Hungarian | dimenzió | dimension |
| 5 | Latin | dimensio | measuring; measurement; dimension |
| 6 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 7 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 8 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 9 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 10 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 11 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 12 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 13 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |