Where does “mételyek” come from?
mételyek (Hungarian) comes from English metely, from English mete, from Middle English mete, from Middle English bake mete, from Middle English baken, from Old English bacan, from Proto-West Germanic bakan, from Proto-Germanic bakaną — to bake, to roast, to fry.
Ancestry of “mételyek”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | metely | According to measure or proportion |
| 2 | English | mete | To dispense, measure in order to dispense, allot (especially punishment, reward etc.) |
| 3 | Middle English | mete | Food, nourishment or comestibles; that which is... |
| 4 | Middle English | bake mete | Any kind of cooked food which has a pastry... |
| 5 | Middle English | baken | To bake; to cook in an oven; usually used of... |
| 6 | Old English | bacan | to bake |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | bakan | to bake |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | bakaną | to bake |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeh₃g- | to bake, to roast, to fry |