Where does “hóesés” come from?
hóesés (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian esés, from Hungarian esik, from Ottoman Turkish اشیك, from Proto-Turkic ēĺü-k — door.
hóesés (Hungarian): snowfall
Ancestry of “hóesés”, step by step
hóesés traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian esés
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | esés | fall, falling |
| 2 | Hungarian | esik | to fall; to rain, to snow; to fall somewhere, to... |
| 3 | Ottoman Turkish | اشیك | threshold, doorsill, doorstep, the lowermost part of a doorway |
| 4 | Proto-Turkic | ēĺü-k | door |
via Hungarian hó
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | hó | snow; month; whoa |
| 2 | Proto-Uralic | kuŋe | the Moon |