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Where does “rettenet” come from?

rettenet (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian retten — to recoil.

rettenet (Hungarian): terror, horror, fright

Definitions

  1. terror, horror, fright

Ancestry of “rettenet”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianrettento recoil

Words derived from “rettenet”

  • rettenetes
  • rettenetek
  • rettenetesen
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