The story
- Hungarian · derived fromgulyás“herdsman”
- French · borrowed fromgoulasch
- English todaygoulash
From French goulasch, itself from Hungarian gulyás (“herdsman”), an ellipsis of gulyáshús (“herdsman meat”), gulyásétel (“herdsman food”), and/or gulyástokány (“herdsman stew”). First attested in English in 1866. Doublet of gulyás.
Words from the same roots
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gulyás
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.