Where does “jégeső” come from?
jégeső (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian eső, from Hungarian esik, from Ottoman Turkish اشیك, from Proto-Turkic ēĺü-k — door.
jégeső (Hungarian): hail
Ancestry of “jégeső”, step by step
jégeső traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian eső
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | eső | present participle of esik; rain |
| 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 jég
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | jég | ice |
| 2 | Proto-Uralic | jäŋe | ice |
Words derived from “jégeső”