variánstól

Variánstól is the ablative case form of the Hungarian noun variáns, used to mean “from a variant.” It appears mainly in formal, scientific, and analytical writing to indicate the origin or source of something that derives from a particular variant, such as a virus lineage, a text version, or a cultural variant.

Morphology and usage: The base noun variáns is combined with the ablative suffix -tól to produce variánstól. The construction functions as an attributive modifier, most often in noun phrases such as variánstól származó minták ("samples derived from a variant") or variánstól függő jellemzők. It denotes origin rather than possession and is typically used with nouns in modifiers that precede the noun they describe.

Contexts and examples: In virology, researchers may report variánstól származó minták to describe samples that come from a specific variant. In genetics or epidemiology, statements such as variánstól származó adatok are used to indicate data derived from a particular variant. In linguistics or textual studies, the term can appear in discussions of sources or lineages of textual variants. The form is most common in technical or specialized discourse.

Etymology and related terms: Variáns is borrowed from Latin varians, via other European languages, and is widely used in Hungarian to denote a variant or alternate form. Related Hungarian terms include változat (variant or version) and variáció (variation). Variánstól is one inflected form used to express origin from a variant; other cases of variáns use different suffixes to indicate different grammatical functions.