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Hungarian
szivárvány
Etymology
From the archaic noun szivár(“a hollow-tube glass tool used to draw wine from a barrel”, from szív(“to suck”) + -ár(noun-forming suffix)) + -vány(noun-forming suffix). The origin of the modern sense of szivárvány is the ancient belief that through the rainbow visible in the sky a mythological being draws up water from the earth.[1]
szivárvány in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
szivár in Czuczor, Gergely and János Fogarasi: A magyar nyelv szótára (“A Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”). Pest: Emich Gusztáv Magyar Akadémiai Nyomdász, 1862–1874.
