Where does “zsarunk” come from?
zsarunk (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian zsaru, from Hungarian zsandár, from German Gendarm, from French gendarme, from French gendarmes, from French gens, from French gents, from Old French gent — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
Ancestry of “zsarunk”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | zsaru | cop, bobby UK, copper |
| 2 | Hungarian | zsandár | gendarme |
| 3 | German | Gendarm | gendarme |
| 4 | French | gendarme | A member of the gendarmerie, a military body... |
| 5 | French | gendarmes | plural of gendarme |
| 6 | French | gens | set of people |
| 7 | French | gents | plural of gent; masculine plural of gent |
| 8 | Old French | gent | people, population; fair, beautiful, handsome;... |
| 9 | Latin | genitus | begotten; engendered; produced |
| 10 | Latin | gignere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 11 | Latin | genere | ablative singular of genus; to beget, produce |
| 12 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |