Where does “chiohăi” come from?

chiohăi (Romanian) comes from Hungarian köhög, from Hungarian -ög, from Hungarian -ö-, from Hungarian -d, from Middle Welsh -nt — 3rd person plural verb ending.

chiohăi (Romanian): to cough

Definitions

  1. to cough

Ancestry of “chiohăi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianköhögto cough
2Hungarian-ögAdded to a stem - often an onomatopoeia - to form...
3Hungarian-ö-linking vowel
4Hungarian-dyour; Used in the second-person singular definite...
5Middle Welsh-nt3rd person plural verb ending
Every word from Middle Welsh -nt →Every word from Hungarian -d →Every word from Hungarian -ög →