Where does “napraforgósárga” come from?
napraforgósárga (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian napraforgó, from Hungarian forgó, from Hungarian forog, from Hungarian -ög, from Hungarian -ö-, from Hungarian -d, from Middle Welsh -nt — 3rd person plural verb ending.
napraforgósárga (Hungarian): sunflower of a bright yellow, like that of the sunflower petals
Definitions
- sunflower of a bright yellow, like that of the sunflower petals
Ancestry of “napraforgósárga”, step by step
napraforgósárga traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian napraforgó
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | napraforgó | sunflower |
| 2 | Hungarian | forgó | present participle of forog; turning, revolving,... |
| 3 | Hungarian | forog | to revolve, rotate |
| 4 | Hungarian | -ög | Added to a stem - often an onomatopoeia - to form... |
| 5 | Hungarian | -ö- | linking vowel |
| 6 | Hungarian | -d | your; Used in the second-person singular definite... |
| 7 | Middle Welsh | -nt | 3rd person plural verb ending |
via Hungarian sárga
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | sárga | yellow |
| 2 | Old English | sāriġ | feeling or expressing grief, sorry, grieved,... |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | sairagaz | sad; saddened; grieved; sorry |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | sairą | wound; sore |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | sairaz | sore, painful |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | seh₂yro- | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | seh₂y- | to bind; to be fierce, afflict; to tie, bind |