Where does “versenyszellem” come from?
versenyszellem (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian verseny, from Hungarian verseng, from Hungarian vers, from Latin versus, from Latin vertō, from Proto-Italic wertō, from Proto-Indo-European wert-, from Proto-Indo-European wer- — to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel.
versenyszellem (Hungarian): competitiveness, competitive spirit, spirit of competition
Definitions
- competitiveness, competitive spirit, spirit of competition
Ancestry of “versenyszellem”, step by step
versenyszellem traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian verseny
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | verseny | race, contest, competition |
| 2 | Hungarian | verseng | to compete, contend |
| 3 | Hungarian | vers | verse, poem; race |
| 4 | Latin | versus | turned, changed, having been turned; towards,... |
| 5 | Latin | vertō | to turn, turn oneself, direct one's way, to turn about, turn around, revolve |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | wertō | to turn |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | wert- | to turn, to rotate |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | wer- | to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel |
via Hungarian szellem
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | szellem | spirit, mentality; ghost; mind, wit, intellect,... |
| 2 | Hungarian | -em | Used to form the first-person singular present... |
| 3 | Hungarian | -én | on the specified day of the month attached to numbers with a hyphen, omitting the dot that indicates ordinal numbers |
| 4 | Hungarian | -é | Used to form the lative, expressing the direction... |
| 5 | Albanian | -ë | -ing, -ion |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | -jā | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -íh₂ | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -h₂ | Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups... |