Where does “tönkretesz” come from?
tönkretesz (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian tönkre, from Hungarian tönk, from Hungarian tő, from Hungarian -ék, from Hungarian -é, from Albanian -ë, from Proto-West Germanic -jā, from Proto-Indo-European -íh₂ — Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...
tönkretesz (Hungarian): to ruin, spoil, destroy
Definitions
- to ruin, spoil, destroy
Ancestry of “tönkretesz”, step by step
tönkretesz traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian tönkre
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | tönkre | sublative singular of tönk |
| 2 | Hungarian | tönk | stump, treestump; chopping stump; stipe, stalk,... |
| 3 | Hungarian | tő | stem (plant), foot, stump (tree) |
| 4 | Hungarian | -ék | Added to a verb to form a noun; “Heterogeneous... |
| 5 | Hungarian | -é | Used to form the lative, expressing the direction... |
| 6 | Albanian | -ë | -ing, -ion |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | -jā | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -íh₂ | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -h₂ | Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups... |