Where does “prérityúkok” come from?
prérityúkok (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian prérityúk, from Hungarian préri, from English prairie, from French prairie, from Old French praerie, from Portuguese prataria, from Portuguese prata, from Old Portuguese prata — flat.
Ancestry of “prérityúkok”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | prérityúk | prairie chicken either of two species of flightless bird of the genus |
| 2 | Hungarian | préri | prairie |
| 3 | English | prairie | An extensive area of relatively flat grassland... |
| 4 | French | prairie | meadow, grassland, pasture, prairie |
| 5 | Old French | praerie | meadow |
| 6 | Portuguese | prataria | silverware; cutlery; plates, dishes collectively |
| 7 | Portuguese | prata | silver; one hundred cents of current currency... |
| 8 | Old Portuguese | prata | silver |
| 9 | Vulgar Latin | platta | metal plate |
| 10 | Latin | plattus | flattened |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | πλατύς | wide, broad; flat, level; broad-shouldered |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | pléth₂us | flat, broad |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | pleth₂- | flat |