Where does “tüs” come from?
tüs (Hungarian) comes from German tusch, from French touché, from French toucher, from German -ieren, from French -er, from English -er, from Middle English -er, from Old French -er — he, she.
tüs (Hungarian): Indian ink black ink made from lampblack
Definitions
- Indian ink black ink made from lampblack
Ancestry of “tüs”, step by step
tüs traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German tusch
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | tusch | singular imperative of tuschen; first-person... |
| 2 | French | touché | past participle of toucher |
| 3 | French | toucher | The act of touching; A way of touching; The sense... |
| 4 | German | -ieren | Verb suffix: it and its inflected forms are found... |
| 5 | French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs |
| 6 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 7 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 8 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 9 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 14 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via Proto-Turkic *tǖs
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proto-Turkic | *tǖs | color, colour |