Where does “zöldségleves” come from?
zöldségleves (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian zöldség, from Hungarian zöld, from Hungarian zeld.
zöldségleves (Hungarian): vegetable soup
Ancestry of “zöldségleves”, step by step
zöldségleves traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian zöldség
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | zöldség | vegetable; nonsense, rubbish, blather |
| 2 | Hungarian | zöld | green; unripe, green; of leaves |
| 3 | Hungarian | zeld | — |
via Hungarian leves
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | leves | soup |
| 2 | Hungarian | lesz | will be; must be, have to be; to become, come... |
| 3 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | le- | to become; to be, exist, will be, live |