jégkockak

jégkockak = ice cubes in Hungarian

The word “jégkocka” (ice cube) is a compound word consisting of the Proto-Uralic word *jäŋe (ice) and the loanword from Slavic languages.

The word “jég” is a cognate with the Finnish & Estonian “jää” (ice). The Hungarian word “kocka” (cube, dice, square) is “kocka” in Slovak & Croatian (cube, dice), “коцка” {kocka} (cube, dice) in Serbian and “kocka” (dice) in Slovene.

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