Where does “ghiufă” come from?

ghiufă (Romanian) comes from Hungarian gyufa, from Hungarian fá, from Proto-Uralic puwe — tree, wood.

ghiufă (Romanian): match (device to make fire)

Definitions

  1. match (device to make fire)

Ancestry of “ghiufă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungariangyufamatch
2Hungarianfáfa, a syllable used in solfège to represent the...
3Proto-Uralicpuwetree, wood
Every word from Proto-Uralic puwe →Every word from Hungarian fá →Every word from Hungarian gyufa →