Where does “százalék” come from?

százalék (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian -alék, from Hungarian -lék, from Hungarian -ék, from Hungarian -é, from Albanian -ë, from Proto-West Germanic -jā, from Proto-Indo-European -íh₂, from Proto-Indo-European -h₂ — Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...

százalék (Hungarian): percent, percentage

Definitions

  1. percent, percentage

Ancestry of “százalék”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarian-alékAdded to a verb or other parts of speech to form...
2Hungarian-lékAdded to a verb or other parts of speech to form...
3Hungarian-ékAdded to a verb to form a noun; “Heterogeneous...
4Hungarian-éUsed to form the lative, expressing the direction...
5Albanian-ë-ing, -ion
6Proto-West Germanic-jā—
7Proto-Indo-European-íh₂—
8Proto-Indo-European-h₂Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...

Words derived from “százalék”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -h₂ →Every word from Hungarian -ék →Every word from Hungarian -é →