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
- 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
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | árul | to sell |
| 2 | Hungarian | áru | goods, merchandise, product; -ware; -ery |
| 3 | Hungarian | ár | price; cost; flood |
| 4 | German | ar | — |
| 5 | French | are | an are |
| 6 | Latin | ārea | a piece of level ground, a vacant place (esp. in the town) |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | āzeā | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂eHs-e-yeh₂ | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂eHs- | to be/become dry; to burn, to glow; hearth |
via Hungarian egy
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | egy | one; a, an; same |
| 2 | Hungarian | -én | on the specified day of the month attached to numbers with a hyphen, omitting the dot that indicates ordinal numbers |
| 3 | Hungarian | -é | Used to form the lative, expressing the direction... |
| 4 | Albanian | -ë | -ing, -ion |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | -jā | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -íh₂ | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -h₂ | Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups... |