Where does “Budapest” come from?
Budapest comes from Hungarian Buda, the name of a historical city on the west bank of the Danube River.
Budapest (English): The Hungarian government
Definitions
- The Hungarian government
Ancestry of “Budapest”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | Budapest | — |
| 2 | Hungarian | Pest | One of the originally three separate cities that were united in 1873 to become the Hungarian capital, Budapest |
| 3 | Old Church Slavonic | пещь | oven, stove |
| 4 | Proto-Slavic | peťь | oven |
| 5 | Proto-Slavic | peťi | to bake; to get motivated, to put effort into, to... |
| 6 | Proto-Balto-Slavic | pektei | to bake |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | pékʷeti | to be cooking; to ripen |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pekʷ- | to cook; to ripen |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃-ép-kʷ- | — |