Where does “Tejút” come from?

Tejút (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian út, from Proto-Uralic utka — track; way.

Tejút (Hungarian): Milky Way Galaxy

Definitions

  1. Milky Way Galaxy

Ancestry of “Tejút”, step by step

Tejút traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian út

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianútway; road; trip
2Proto-Uralicutkatrack; way

via Hungarian tej

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungariantejmilk
Every word from Proto-Uralic utka →Every word from Hungarian út →