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January-March 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 1.
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nyak – kany: nyaklik (flex), kanyar (curve), kanyul (crumple); expressing stretch, glutinosity.
nyeg – geny: nyegle (foppish), gennyes (purulent), expressing stretch, glutinosity.
etc.
4 th type connections are not presented in this graph; it could be shown outside of it:
_eny: genny (purulent), szenny (muck); expressing stretch.
_any: anya (mother), banya (crone), nyanya (old woman); expressing softness.
_ony: konyul (crumple), fonnyad (wilt); expressing stretch.
_uny: szunnyad (lie dormant), huny (drop off), tunya (torpid, slack), punnyad (slack); expressing stretch.
_any: sanyar (wry), fanyar (acrid); expressing stretch of taste in mouth.
Notes:
1. The graph basically is a researching and learning tool. It is used for systematically examining
three-phoneme units of our language. It systematically contains the three-phoneme roots and trunks,
too, but the roots are always at a much higher level than the trunks in these graphs. In most cases it is
easy to classify which are the real three-phoneme roots and which come from two-element roots. E.g.
nyúl, nyú(j)t, nyur, nyug, nyúz, nyuv are considered as trunks (or words) created from the root nyu. Even
so we included them in the graph because they strongly show and highlight the inner nature of the roots
and trunks created from Ny. In rare cases the discrimination is little doubtful, e.g. nyüzs generally
considered as sound imitator, but someone could consider it as derivation from the root nyü (worm). In
this graph, beside nyu, only nyit and nyíl(ik) could be considered as created trunks, their root could be
nyi: nyit (open something) and nyíl(ik) (being opened).
2. We did not include some roots in this graph, which starts now with Ny: nyár/nyar (summer),
nyar(gal) (scud), because according to CzF their origin is different from Ny. Nyargal = jargal = jár, járkál (go
about). Nyar = arat , ér + Ny as only a presound.
3. In some nodes two (or more) roots should be presented. In case of roots starting with Ny there are
only two nodes with such kind of need. According to CzF nyer covers three roots, the first one is the root
of nyers (pure), which comes from the sweat, juice of a plain wood; the second is nyer (win), which comes
from ‘to reach something’; the third one is nyereg (saddle), which comes from er (emerge) plus Ny as
presound. We can see that the first two are closely related to stretchness, glutinosity of Ny. The only
other node with two meanings is: nyir, one is nyirok (sweat) nyír(fa) (birch), which is a moist, clammy
plant and lives in such place; the second one is the verb nyír (cut). The first meaning is very close to
meaning of stretchness, glutinosity. (The second one according to CzF comes from ar(at) + Ny as
presound)
4. Two-element roots starting with Ny: nyú meaning stretch and nyű meaning as verb: pull, draw, and
as noun: worm. Two-element roots ending with Ny: eny, not used nowadays alone, rather trunks
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