Where does “tejcukor” come from?

tejcukor (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian cukor, from German zucker, from Middle High German zucker — sugar.

tejcukor (Hungarian): lactose the disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products

Definitions

  1. lactose the disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products

Ancestry of “tejcukor”, step by step

tejcukor traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian cukor

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungariancukorsugar
2Germanzuckerinflection of zuckern: ## first-person singular...
3Middle High Germanzuckersugar

via Hungarian tej

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungariantejmilk
Every word from Middle High German zucker →Every word from German zucker →Every word from Hungarian cukor →