Where does “tehetetlen” come from?

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

tehetetlen (Hungarian): powerless

Definitions

  1. powerless

Ancestry of “tehetetlen”, step by step

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

Words derived from “tehetetlen”

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