Where does “toalettpapír” come from?
toalettpapír (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian toalett, from German Toilette, from French toilette, from French Toile, from Old French toile, from Old French teile, from Latin tēla, from Old Dutch tegela — to cover; pole, stick, beam.
toalettpapír (Hungarian): toilet paper
Definitions
- toilet paper
Ancestry of “toalettpapír”, step by step
toalettpapír traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian toalett
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | toalett | toilet; dress; dressing room |
| 2 | German | Toilette | toilet; toilette |
| 3 | French | toilette | toilet; the toilet, lavatory |
| 4 | French | Toile | Web; World Wide Web |
| 5 | Old French | toile | fabric; web |
| 6 | Old French | teile | Alternative form of toile |
| 7 | Latin | tēla | web |
| 8 | Old Dutch | tegela | — |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | *tigulā | — |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | tigulǭ | tile; brick |
| 11 | Latin | tēgula | a large, flat and heavy roof tile used in an overlapping formation with the curved and smaller imbrex |
| 12 | Latin | tegō | to cover; to clothe |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | tegō | cover |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)teg- | to cover; pole, stick, beam |
via Hungarian papír
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | papír | paper |
| 2 | German | papier | paper material |
| 3 | Middle High German | papier | — |
| 4 | Old French | papier | to murmur |
| 5 | Old Catalan | paper | paper sheet material typically used for writing on or printing |
| 6 | Latin | papȳrus | papyrus plant |
| 7 | French | -ine | feminine singular of -in; female equivalent of... |
| 8 | French | -é | past participle root verb suffix of regular -er... |
| 9 | Middle French | -é | past participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n |
| 10 | Old French | -é | used to form past participles of regular -er... |
| 11 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | -ā | Forms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |