Where does “telepes” come from?
telepes (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian telep, from Hungarian telepedik, from Hungarian telik, from Proto-Uralic täwde — full.
telepes (Hungarian): settler
Ancestry of “telepes”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | telep | yard; battery, storage cell; colony, settlement |
| 2 | Hungarian | telepedik | to sit down comfortably somewhere, to settle... |
| 3 | Hungarian | telik | to fill; to elapse, to pass, to go by; to be able... |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | täwde | full |