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January-March 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 1.
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System of roots
Roots are not single, island entities, but are organized according to family ties.
Roots are tied according to some type (in order of frequency, mainly from the research of phoneme
Ny):
1. According to their first one or two phoneme (‘core of the root’).
Examples: nyi: nyikkan, nyifog, nyiszog, nyiffan, nyivákol, nyihog; nya: nyaggat, nyakkan, nyaszál, nyafog,
nyavalyog; nyö: nyög, nyökög, nyöszörög, nyu: nyúl, nyújt, nyúz, nyurga, nyugodt (in case of this last ones the
nyu unit could be taken as a root); gö: göb, göcs, gör, göm;
2. According to the frame of the root.
Examples: ny_l: nyíl, nyél, nyel, nyál, nyal, nyúl, nyől, (nyolc); ny_sz: nyiszál, nyaszál, nyeszetel, nyösztet,
nyüsztet; ny_g: nyegle, nyaggat, nyög, nyugszik, nyűg; ny_v: nyivákol, nyávog, nyavalyog, nyuvaszt, nyüves;
ny_m: nyámmog, nyammog, nyom;
3. According to the change of the order of the phonemes in the root.
Examples: viny – nyiv: vinnyog, nyivákol; nyom – mony; nyaf – fany: nyafog, fanyalog; nyif – finy: nyifog,
finnyás; nyak – kany: nyaklik, kanyar, kanyul; nyeg – geny: nyegle, genny; suh – hus: suháng, husáng, suhog,
hussan; if – fi: ifj, ifjú, fi, fiú; köp – pök; laf – fal: lafatyol, falogat; pat – tap: pattan, tappancs, pattog, tapogat; gyík
– kígy: gyík, kígyó; siv – vis: sivít, visit;
4. According to the last phonemes of the root (this is more seldom, than the earliers).
Examples: _eny: genny, szenny; _any: anya, banya, nyanya; _ony: konyul, fonnyad; _uny: szunnyad, huny,
tunya, punnyad; _any: sanyar, fanyar;
Examples above are given from the roots starting or ending with Ny in category 1, 2 and 4. In 3 we
could give only some examples, therefore we looked out for other phonemes too. (Ny is a softened N,
like in English: new. It is one phoneme, only its writing form consist two signs: N plus y as a ‘softening
sign’.)
According to the most frequent 1, 2 family ties, we could give the system of the three-element roots
starting with Ny:
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