Where does “ゴムボック” come from?
ゴムボック (Japanese) comes from English gömböc, from Hungarian gömböc, from Hungarian -c, from Hungarian -i, from Hungarian -é, from Albanian -ë, from Proto-West Germanic -jā, from Proto-Indo-European -íh₂ — Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...
ゴムボック (Japanese): gömböc
Definitions
- gömböc
Ancestry of “ゴムボック”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | gömböc | A convex shape which, if made of a uniformly dense material, has one stable equilibrium orientation and one unstable equilibrium orientation |
| 2 | Hungarian | gömböc | a short, plump person |
| 3 | Hungarian | -c | Added to a word to form a noun with a diminutive... |
| 4 | Hungarian | -i | Added to a proper noun, noun or postposition to... |
| 5 | Hungarian | -é | Used to form the lative, expressing the direction... |
| 6 | Albanian | -ë | -ing, -ion |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | -jā | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -íh₂ | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -h₂ | Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups... |