Where does “rémeket lát” come from?

rémeket lát (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian lát, from German lōt, from Hebrew לוֹט — myrrh.

rémeket lát (Hungarian): to imagine things, to overreact, to be an alarmist to anticipate a bad outcome without having a good reason for it, to have irrational fear, to see worrying signs everywhere, to judge the situation/future negatively

Definitions

  1. to imagine things, to overreact, to be an alarmist to anticipate a bad outcome without having a good reason for it, to have irrational fear, to see worrying signs everywhere, to judge the situation/future negatively

Ancestry of “rémeket lát”, step by step

rémeket lát traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian lát

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianlátto see
2Germanlōtplummet device for measuring water depth
3Hebrewלוֹטmyrrh

via Hungarian rém

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianrémspook, ghast; specter; menace, terror
2Hungarianrémülto get frightened
3Hungarian-ülAppended to an adjective to form an intransitive...
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