Where does “egy gyékényen árul” come from?

egy gyékényen árul (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian árul, from Hungarian áru, from Hungarian ár, from German ar, from French are, from Latin ārea, from Proto-Italic āzeā, from Proto-Indo-European h₂eHs-e-yeh₂ — to be/become dry; to burn, to glow; hearth.

egy gyékényen árul (Hungarian): to be birds of a feather, tarred with the same brush, stick together, thick as thieves to be alike

Definitions

  1. to be birds of a feather, tarred with the same brush, stick together, thick as thieves to be alike

Ancestry of “egy gyékényen árul”, step by step

egy gyékényen árul traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian árul

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianárulto sell
2Hungarianárugoods, merchandise, product; -ware; -ery
3Hungarianárprice; cost; flood
4Germanar
5Frencharean are
6Latināreaa piece of level ground, a vacant place (esp. in the town)
7Proto-Italicāzeā
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂eHs-e-yeh₂
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂eHs-to be/become dry; to burn, to glow; hearth

via Hungarian egy

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianegyone; a, an; same
2Hungarian-énon the specified day of the month attached to numbers with a hyphen, omitting the dot that indicates ordinal numbers
3HungarianUsed to form the lative, expressing the direction...
4Albanian-ing, -ion
5Proto-West Germanic-jā
6Proto-Indo-European-íh₂
7Proto-Indo-European-h₂Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...

via Hungarian gyékény

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungariangyékénycattail any of several perennial herbs, of the genus
2Proto-Turkicyegennephew
3Proto-Turkic*yegin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₂eHs-Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₂eHs-e-yeh₂Every word from Proto-Italic āzeā