Where does “tessék” come from?
tessék (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian -jék, from Hungarian -ék, from Hungarian -é, from Albanian -ë, from Proto-West Germanic -jā, from Proto-Indo-European -íh₂, from Proto-Indo-European -h₂ — Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...
tessék (Hungarian): please, would you?, kindly (especially towards elderly people, clients, or by children towards adults, used as a polite alternative to the imperative mood)
Definitions
- please, would you?, kindly (especially towards elderly people, clients, or by children towards adults, used as a polite alternative to the imperative mood)
Ancestry of “tessék”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | -jék | Used to form the third-person plural subjunctive... |
| 2 | Hungarian | -ék | Added to a verb to form a noun; “Heterogeneous... |
| 3 | Hungarian | -é | Used to form the lative, expressing the direction... |
| 4 | Albanian | -ë | -ing, -ion |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | -jā | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -íh₂ | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -h₂ | Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups... |