Where does “tévé” come from?

tévé (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian tesz, from Proto-Uralic teke-, from Proto-Indo-European dʰeh₁- — to do, put, place.

tévé (Hungarian): telly, TV

Definitions

  1. telly, TV

Ancestry of “tévé”, step by step

tévé traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian tesz

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianteszto do; to place, to put; to make
2Proto-Uralicteke-to do; to put, to place
3Proto-Indo-Europeandʰeh₁-to do, put, place

via Hungarian tv

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungariantvtelevision, TV

via Proto-Turkic *tebe

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Turkic*tebecamel

Words derived from “tévé”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European dʰeh₁- →Every word from Proto-Uralic teke- →Every word from Hungarian tesz →