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Where does “nyolcvanegy” come from?

nyolcvanegy (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian nyolcvan, from Hungarian van, from Hungarian kedve, 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...

nyolcvanegy (Hungarian): eighty-one

Definitions

  1. eighty-one

Ancestry of “nyolcvanegy”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungariannyolcvaneighty
2Hungarianvanto be, to exist; to have; someone has something;...
3Hungariankedvethird-person singular single-possession...
4Hungarian-éUsed to form the lative, expressing the direction...
5Albanian-ë-ing, -ion
6Proto-West Germanic-jā—
7Proto-Indo-European-íh₂—
8Proto-Indo-European-h₂Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...
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