Where does “kagylóhéj” come from?

kagylóhéj (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian héj — shell egg, nut, skin apple, onion, potato, peel orange, lemon, rind melon, crust bread, bark tree.

kagylóhéj (Hungarian): shell, conch

Definitions

  1. shell, conch

Ancestry of “kagylóhéj”, step by step

kagylóhéj traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian héj

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianhéjshell egg, nut, skin apple, onion, potato, peel orange, lemon, rind melon, crust bread, bark tree

via Hungarian kagyló

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungariankagylóshell; receiver; basin

Words derived from “kagylóhéj”

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