Etymologically

1700s

Hungarian words first recorded in the 18th century

5 Hungarian words whose earliest known written record dates from the 18th century, earliest first. Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.

  1. mindenki

    1703

    It is a compound from Hungarian minden (“every, all”) + ki (“who; someone”). The older literary language used kiki “each one” for this sense; Szily found the word first in Sándor István's Toldalék…

  2. hogyan

    1724

    It is formed from Hungarian hogy (“how”) + -n, the interrogative and relative adverb ⟨hogy⟩ with the suffix of manner ⟨-n⟩. The base ⟨hogy⟩ was formed within Hungarian, but how it was formed is…

  3. perc

    1742

    It is a back-formation from the nouns ⟨percegés⟩, ⟨percenés⟩ and ⟨percentés⟩, derived from the verbs percen, perceg and percent, which imitate a faint ticking or crackling. The nouns were used of…

  4. milyen

    1748

    It developed within Hungarian from the pronoun mely “which” on the model of the pairs ilyen : ily and olyan : oly. The interrogative mi “what” may have influenced its form. Its original form was…

  5. nos

    1793

    It is from Hungarian no (“come on, well”) + s (“and”), a compound of the interjection and the conjunction, a short form of és. The compound arose in sentences in which the interjection, urging the…

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