Where does “merevlemez” come from?

merevlemez (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian lemez, from Proto-Slavic lemešь, from Latvian lemesis — plowshare.

merevlemez (Hungarian): hard drive, hard disk, hard disk drive

Definitions

  1. hard drive, hard disk, hard disk drive

Ancestry of “merevlemez”, step by step

merevlemez traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian lemez

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianlemezmetal plate, lamina; record
2Proto-Slaviclemešьploughshare; plough
3Latvianlemesisplowshare

via Hungarian merev

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianmerevrigid

Words derived from “merevlemez”

Every word from Latvian lemesis →Every word from Proto-Slavic lemešь →Every word from Hungarian lemez →