Where does “kenyérmorzsa” come from?

kenyérmorzsa (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian morzsa — crumb.

kenyérmorzsa (Hungarian): breadcrumb a tiny piece of bread, either one that falls from bread as it is cut or eaten, or one made deliberately by crumbling bread

Definitions

  1. breadcrumb a tiny piece of bread, either one that falls from bread as it is cut or eaten, or one made deliberately by crumbling bread

Ancestry of “kenyérmorzsa”, step by step

kenyérmorzsa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian morzsa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianmorzsacrumb

via Hungarian kenyér

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungariankenyérbread
Every word from Hungarian morzsa
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