Where does “Хөх нуур” come from?

Хөх нуур (Mongolian) comes from Mongolian хөх, from Mongolian ᠬᠥᠬᠡ, from Proto-Mongolic *köke, from Proto-Turkic *kȫk.

Хөх нуур (Mongolian): Qinghai Lake

Definitions

  1. Qinghai Lake

Ancestry of “Хөх нуур”, step by step

Хөх нуур traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Mongolian хөх

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Mongolianхөхblue; breast
2Mongolianᠬᠥᠬᠡblue
3Proto-Mongolic*kökeblue
4Proto-Turkic*kȫk—

via Mongolian нуур

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Mongolianнуурlake
2Proto-Mongolicnaxurlake
Every word from Proto-Turkic *kȫk →Every word from Proto-Mongolic *köke →Every word from Mongolian ᠬᠥᠬᠡ →