Where does “osztályfőnök” come from?
osztályfőnök (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian osztály, from Hungarian oszt, from Hungarian aztán, from Hungarian azután, from Hungarian az, from Hungarian a, from French à, from English avie — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
osztályfőnök (Hungarian): homeroom teacher a teacher who is responsible for a group of students belonging to one class in the academic year, takes care of administrative tasks and other non-academic activities
Definitions
- homeroom teacher a teacher who is responsible for a group of students belonging to one class in the academic year, takes care of administrative tasks and other non-academic activities
Ancestry of “osztályfőnök”, step by step
osztályfőnök traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian osztály
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | osztály | class; department, division, ward, unit; grade,... |
| 2 | Hungarian | oszt | to divide; to distribute, to dispense, to... |
| 3 | Hungarian | aztán | then, after it |
| 4 | Hungarian | azután | afterwards, after that, then, next, later |
| 5 | Hungarian | az | the; that |
| 6 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 7 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 8 | English | avie | emulously |
| 9 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 10 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 11 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 12 | Latin | -us | suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,... |
| 13 | Old Latin | -os | accusative masculine plural of -us |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | -os | — |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |
via Hungarian főnök
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | főnök | chief, boss; nominative plural of főn |
| 2 | Hungarian | főn | foehn; superessive singular of fő |
| 3 | German | föhn | singular imperative of föhnen; first-person... |
| 4 | Old High German | phonno | — |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | faonius | — |
| 6 | Latin | favōnius | — |
| 7 | Latin | faveō | to be favorable, to be well disposed or inclined towards, to favor, promote, befriend, countenance, protect |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰoweh₁ | to notice |