Where does “villámcsapás” come from?
villámcsapás (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian villám, from Hungarian villa, from Italian villa, from Latin vīlla, from Latin vetera, from Latin vetus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.
villámcsapás (Hungarian): thunderbolt
Definitions
- thunderbolt
Ancestry of “villámcsapás”, step by step
villámcsapás traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian villám
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | villám | lightning; first-person singular... |
| 2 | Hungarian | villa | fork; villa |
| 3 | Italian | villa | mansion; detached house, residence; country... |
| 4 | Latin | vīlla | country house; villa |
| 5 | Latin | vetera | the old; old times, ancient times, antiquity |
| 6 | Latin | vetus | old, aged, elderly, ancient; long-standing;... |
| 7 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |
via Hungarian csapás
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | csapás | stroke, blow, hit; disaster, calamity,... |
| 2 | Hungarian | csap | tap, faucet; spigot, pivot, peg, pin; cone |
| 3 | German | Zapfen | gerund of zapfen; plug, bung, pin, tap, spigot;... |
| 4 | Middle High German | zapfen | — |
| 5 | Old High German | zapfo | — |
| 6 | Frankish | tappō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | tappô | plug; tap |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | deh₂p- | to sacrifice; to lose |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | deh₂- | to share, divide |