Etymology

Herzegovinian

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Today it means: A person from Herzegovina (the southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina). Full definition →

English Herzegovina ← Serbo-Croatian Hercegovina ← Hungarian herceg
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ker-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*kóryos
  3. Proto-Germanic*harjaz
  4. Proto-West Germanic*hari
  5. Proto-Indo-European*dewk-?
  6. Proto-West Germanic*togō
  7. Ancient Greekστρατηγός (stratēgós)
  8. Proto-West Germanic*harjatogō
  9. Old High Germanherizogo
  10. Middle High Germanherzog
  11. GermanHerzog
  12. Middle High Germanherzog
  13. Hungarianherceg
  14. Serbo-Croatianherceg
  15. Serbo-CroatianHercegovina
  16. EnglishHerzegovina
  17. English todayHerzegovinian

From Herzegovina + -ian.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.