Where does “hēukòk” come from?
hēukòk (Khiamniungan Naga) comes from Proto-Turkic Kok- — to smell badly, to give out a smell of burning.
hēukòk (Khiamniungan Naga): riverbank
Definitions
- riverbank
Ancestry of “hēukòk”, step by step
hēukòk traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Proto-Turkic Kok-
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proto-Turkic | Kok- | to smell badly, to give out a smell of burning |
via Khiamniungan Naga hēu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khiamniungan Naga | hēu | a rivera large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea |