Where does “valamelyiküké” come from?
valamelyiküké (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian valamelyikük, from Hungarian valamelyik, from Hungarian vala-, from Zou va̋, from Proto-Kuki-Chin *waa, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *waʔ — bird, fowl.
Ancestry of “valamelyiküké”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | valamelyikük | one of them |
| 2 | Hungarian | valamelyik | one of them, one or the other |
| 3 | Hungarian | vala- | some- |
| 4 | Zou | va̋ | bird |
| 5 | Proto-Kuki-Chin | *waa | — |
| 6 | Proto-Sino-Tibetan | *waʔ | bird, fowl |