JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES

October-December 2009 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume I., Issue 4.
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Root 1 st level words English translation
izz izzik glow, smoulder
izzít incandesce
izzad sweat, perspire
izzaszt sudorific
izzó glowing, smouldering
izzás flagrancy
Movement ”imitation” (-expression) words (mozgásutánzó szavak): As HNO wrote sound and
movement sensations are very close in the inner human neural system. Movement expression words do
not only simply express movement, but this phenomenon resembles to a sort of “movement imitation”.
These words carry themselves the inner sensation that sounds constituting the root, “imitate” the
movement. In some cases this link is more abstract, but in other cases the noises, which are caused by the
movement, could be the link. The number of these movement imitation roots is cca. 100-150 or even
more. (There is some overlap between sound imitation roots and movement imitation roots, because
some roots could be listed here and there, too.)
Examples:
Root 1 st level words English translation
bill billen tilt (once)
billeg tilt (many times – cont.)
ball ballag amble
bic biccen hop (once)
biceg hop (many times – cont.)
boly bolyog spatiate
bolyong knock around
bolydul get trepidiant
döc döccen bump, jolt (once)
döcög bump, jolt (many times –
cont.)
fity fittyen dangle (once)
fityeg dangle (many times – cont.)
fittyed get dangled
fityma foreskin
lib libben flick (once)
libeg flicker (cont.)
leb lebben flitting (once)
lebeg float (cont.)
lebeny lobe
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