Where does “tömeggyilkosság” come from?
tömeggyilkosság (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian tömeg, from Hungarian -ég, from Hungarian -é-, from Hungarian -d, from Middle Welsh -nt — 3rd person plural verb ending.
tömeggyilkosság (Hungarian): mass murder the killing of a large number of people over a short period of time
Definitions
- mass murder the killing of a large number of people over a short period of time
Ancestry of “tömeggyilkosság”, step by step
tömeggyilkosság traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian tömeg
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | tömeg | crowd, mass; mass |
| 2 | Hungarian | -ég | Added to a stem - often an onomatopoeia - to form a verb expressing a (quickly) repeating or continuous action |
| 3 | Hungarian | -é- | — |
| 4 | Hungarian | -d | your; Used in the second-person singular definite... |
| 5 | Middle Welsh | -nt | 3rd person plural verb ending |
via Hungarian gyilkosság
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | gyilkosság | murder |
| 2 | Hungarian | -ság | -dom, -ness, -ity. Added to an adjective, noun or... |