Where does “nem látja a fától az erdőt” come from?
nem látja a fától az erdőt (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian az, from Hungarian a, from French à, from English avie, from French envie, from Latin invidia, from Latin invidus, from Latin invideo — in.
nem látja a fától az erdőt (Hungarian): can't see the forest for the trees, can't see the wood for the trees
Definitions
- can't see the forest for the trees, can't see the wood for the trees
Ancestry of “nem látja a fától az erdőt”, step by step
nem látja a fától az erdőt traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian az
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | az | the; that |
| 2 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 3 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 4 | English | avie | emulously |
| 5 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 6 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 7 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 8 | Latin | invideo | I look askance or maliciously at, cast an evil... |
| 9 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 10 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 11 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Hungarian erdő
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | erdő | forest; forest, mass, sea, wealth |
| 2 | Hungarian | eredő | present participle of ered: resulting, arising,... |
| 3 | Hungarian | ered | to originate, to come from, to derive from; to... |
| 4 | Hungarian | -ed | your; Used to form the definite second-person... |
| 5 | Hungarian | -é- | — |
| 6 | Hungarian | -d | your; Used in the second-person singular definite... |
| 7 | Middle Welsh | -nt | 3rd person plural verb ending |