Where does “mucholapka” come from?

mucholapka (Slovak) comes from Hungarian lapka, from Hungarian lepke, from Proto-Uralic lüppe — butterfly.

mucholapka (Slovak): flypaper

Definitions

  1. flypaper

Ancestry of “mucholapka”, step by step

mucholapka traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian lapka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianlapkachip
2Hungarianlepkebutterfly; moth
3Proto-Uraliclüppebutterfly

via Slovak Mucha

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1SlovakMuchafly insect
2Proto-Slavicmùxafly
Every word from Proto-Uralic lüppe →Every word from Hungarian lepke →Every word from Hungarian lapka →