Where does “tengerészkék” come from?
tengerészkék (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian tengerész, from Hungarian tenger, from Proto-Turkic teŋiŕ, from Old Turkic teŋ, from Middle Chinese 等.
tengerészkék (Hungarian): navy blue
Ancestry of “tengerészkék”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Hungarian | tengerész | sailor |
| 2 | Hungarian | tenger | sea |
| 3 | Proto-Turkic | teŋiŕ | sea |
| 4 | Old Turkic | teŋ | equivalent, balanced; equal, equivalent,... |
| 5 | Middle Chinese | 等 | — |