Where does “barna cukor” come from?
barna cukor (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian cukor, from German zucker, from Middle High German zucker — sugar.
barna cukor (Hungarian): brown sugar
Ancestry of “barna cukor”, step by step
barna cukor traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian cukor
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | cukor | sugar |
| 2 | German | zucker | inflection of zuckern:
## first-person singular... |
| 3 | Middle High German | zucker | sugar |
via Hungarian barna
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | barna | brown; having dark complexion/skin, tanned;... |
| 2 | Hungarian | -ít | -ify, added to a noun, adjective, verb or other... |