Where does “olyasmi” come from?
olyasmi (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian olyas, from Hungarian oly, from Hungarian az, from Hungarian a, from French à, from English avie, from French envie, from Latin invidia — in.
olyasmi (Hungarian): something like that, something of the sort/kind
Definitions
- something like that, something of the sort/kind
Ancestry of “olyasmi”, step by step
olyasmi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian olyas
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | olyas | such a thing, something like that, that kind of thing |
| 2 | Hungarian | oly | such |
| 3 | Hungarian | az | the; that |
| 4 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 5 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 6 | English | avie | emulously |
| 7 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 8 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 9 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 10 | Latin | invideo | I look askance or maliciously at, cast an evil... |
| 11 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 12 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 13 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |