Where does “balegi” come from?

balegi (Cornish) comes from Hungarian balek, from Slovincian bal, from German ball, from Middle High German bal.

balegi (Cornish): to jut, overhang, project, protrude, stand out

Definitions

  1. to jut, overhang, project, protrude, stand out

Ancestry of “balegi”, step by step

balegi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian balek

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianbalekdupe, mug, sucker
2Slovincianbalball
3Germanballball round or roundish object, most commonly used in games
4Middle High Germanbal—

via Cornish i

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cornishithey
2Englisheyesplural of eye; Third-person singular simple...
3Proto-Indo-Europeanéythe; demonstrative pronoun; this one, he
4Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁e-—
Every word from Middle High German bal →Every word from German ball →Every word from Slovincian bal →