Where does “postafiók” come from?

postafiók (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian posta, from Latin positus, from Latin pōnō, from Proto-Italic poznō, from Proto-Italic pozinō, from Proto-Italic sinō.

postafiók (Hungarian): post office box

Definitions

  1. post office box

Ancestry of “postafiók”, step by step

postafiók traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian posta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianpostamail, post; post office
2Latinpositusplaced; ordained
3Latinpōnōto place; to put; to lay
4Proto-Italicpoznō—
5Proto-Italicpozinō—
6Proto-Italicsinō—

via Hungarian fiók

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianfiókdrawer; branch, subsidiary, affiliate; post...
2Hungarianfison, child, offspring; a smaller part of a...
3Latinphi—
4Ancient Greekφεῖphi, the name for the twenty-second letter Φ, φ...

Words derived from “postafiók”

Every word from Proto-Italic sinō →Every word from Proto-Italic pozinō →Every word from Proto-Italic poznō →