Hungarian etymology in numbers
Counted from the etymologies of the 171 Hungarian entries in this dictionary, and recounted every few hours as entries are added. See also Hungarian words by origin.
Borrowed, inherited or formed
Each entry counted once: as borrowed if its etymology names a language it was taken from, else as inherited, else as formed within Hungarian.
- Borrowed 8% · 13 taken from another language
- Inherited 35% · 59 passed down from an ancestor of Hungarian
- Formed in Hungarian 34% · 58 compounds and derivatives of its own words
- Not traced yet 24% · 41 no etymology links yet
Ultimate origins by language family
Where the 76 traced words end up when their etymologies are followed back as far as they go, from entry to entry, grouped into families and the branches of Indo-European.
- Uralic 59 · 78% Proto-Uralic 52 · Proto-Ugric 7
- Balto-Slavic 4 · 5% Proto-Slavic 3 · Serbo-Croatian 1
- Germanic 4 · 5% English 1 · Old English 1 · Yiddish 1 · German 1
- Indo-European 2 · 3% Proto-Indo-European 2
- Italic 1 · 1% Latin 1
- Turkic 1 · 1% Proto-Oghur 1
- Unclassified 5 · 7% Bulgar 4 · Alanian 1
When the words arrived
The 170 entries with a first-attestation date, by century and by the language each was borrowed from.
- Bulgar
- Latin
- English
- Alanian
- Yiddish
- Other borrowings
- Inherited or formed
- Not traced
Show as a table
| Century | Bulgar | Latin | English | Alanian | Yiddish | Other borrowings | Inherited or formed | Not traced | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10th century | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| 11th century | 2 | 6 | 1 | 9 | |||||
| 12th century | 1 | 27 | 7 | 35 | |||||
| 13th century | 1 | 13 | 9 | 23 | |||||
| 14th century | 2 | 1 | 30 | 11 | 44 | ||||
| 15th century | 2 | 26 | 6 | 34 | |||||
| 16th century | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 13 | ||||
| 17th century | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 18th century | 3 | 2 | 5 | ||||||
| 19th century | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||
| 20th century | 1 | 1 |
Words other languages took from Hungarian
1 entry of other languages in this dictionary were borrowed from Hungarian or its earlier stages.
Most prolific roots
The words that the most Hungarian entries go back to, at the far end of their etymologies.
- 2 Proto-Uralic *o → az, a
- 2 Proto-Uralic *śerɜ → szeret, szerint
- 1 Proto-Uralic *amta- → ad
- 1 Proto-Uralic *appe → apa
- 1 Proto-Uralic *ańa → anya
- 1 Proto-Slavic *dьlgъ → dolog
- 1 Proto-Uralic *e- → ez
- 1 Bulgar *egän → igen
- 1 Proto-Ugric *elɜ → él
- 1 Proto-Uralic *ikä → év
- 1 Proto-Ugric *jomɜ → jó
- 1 Proto-Uralic *jorkɜ- → jár
- 1 Proto-Ugric *jȣ̈ŋɜ- → jön
- 1 Proto-Uralic *kaďa- → hagy
- 1 Proto-Uralic *kaŋɜ- → hív
Longest journeys
The Hungarian words whose etymologies pass through the most languages, followed from entry to entry.
- hall 4 languages
Proto-Uralic *kule- ← English hall ← Middle English halle ← Old English heall
- próbál 3 languages
Latin probo ← Proto-Italic *pro-f(w)-o- ← Proto-Indo-European *pro-bʰ(h₂)u-o-
- óra 3 languages
Latin hora ← Ancient Greek ὥρα ← Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥
- fog 2 languages
Proto-Ugric *puŋɜ- ← Proto-Uralic *piŋe
- át 2 languages
Old Hungarian ált ← Proto-Ugric *ȣltɜ
- él 2 languages
Proto-Uralic *elä- ← Proto-Ugric *elɜ