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January-March 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 1.
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4. Summary
The name of the Hungarian people hungar, the hydronyms of the Volga-Ural region and the common
nouns connected to these hydronyms have same origins by their forms and their semantics. The identity
of the names of such high degree can not be explained with the late movement of people to the Ural
region.
The hydronyms, as the most ancient geographycal names in the Volga-Ural region, have tracks not
only in the Hungarian and Turkish languages, but further in Scythian and Hunnish as well. This means,
that the language culture was born during Scythian and Hunnish time in the marshy regions of the two
sides of the Ural Mountain, at the sources of rivers, where the marshies were/are the sources of the
rivers.
Tracks of this language culture can be detected in the Uralic, Altaic languages and even Russian. This
means that we have to think over not only the general connection of the Hungarian and Turkish
languages, the Uralic and Altaic languages and Russian, but Scythian and Hunnish, too.
The grammatical lesson
We have to search the origin of the names hungar, hun, magyar in common geographical places in
accordance with the data provided by historical sources and with the opinion of scientists. As a starting
point we have the hydronyms. According to some the name of the territory came from the ethnonym.
According to others the ethnonym Hungar came from the dynastic (< personal name) name. The
beginning h- in Hungar is originally a consonant.
The begining j- in Jugra can not be Russian development. Its origin is more ancient. The final -a 7 can
not be Russian affix of the region and ethnonym in the names Jugra, merja, muroma, mescsera, cseremisza,
Obdora. So the name Jugra can not mean `people Vogulish, people Ostjakish`. The name onogur (< on ’ten’
+ ogur) can not come from ongur (< ongu + -r).
The geographycal names in the Volga-Ural region are in use by people speaking languages belonging
to the Ural-Altaic and Russian languages, and the proper names in the Carpathian Basin, the common
nouns in Uralic and Altaic languages have systematic connections. This fact can be explained as follows:
the identicity is either due to borrowing words or to the genetic identity of words.
The parallel developments in Turkish and Hungarian phonetic history (LIGETI 1986:53-88) and the
fact that the written sources identify the Hungarian and Turkish people and their names as relatives,
gives reason for the genetic identity, too.
We need to stress the fact the Hungarian-Turkish language connection was more intensive and is
more ancient than many scientists presentlt think, because of the common Scythian and Hunnish
connections.
The language connections of old Hungarian and Slavic languages can be based on the following facts:
the ancestors of Slavic people came from the Nordic regions to the places of Ukraine and to the western
7 See the ugrak ethnonym in Kasgari.
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