Where does “Hotaru” come from?

Hotaru (Romanian) comes from Romanian hotar, from Hungarian határ, from Hungarian hát, from Proto-Uralic kutte — ridge; six.

Ancestry of “Hotaru”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianhotarlimit; border
2Hungarianhatárlimit, boundary; border, outskirts, frontier,...
3Hungarianhátback; well; then, and, but
4Proto-Uralickutteridge; six

Words derived from “Hotaru”

Every word from Proto-Uralic kutte →Every word from Hungarian hát →Every word from Hungarian határ →