JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES

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tendon') 'sinew', vér (Finnish veri) 'blood', húgy (Finnish kusi) 'urine', and, moreover, Hungarian fej
(Finnish pää) 'head', szem (Finnish silmä) 'eye', könny (Finnish kyynel) 'tears', száj (Finnish suu) 'mouth', íny
(Finnish ien) 'gum (gingiva)', kéz (Finnish käsi) 'hand', könyök (Finnish kyynär[pää]) 'elbow', öl (Finnish syli
'lap, bosom') 'womb', mony (Finnish muna) 'egg; testicle'. A correspondence between Hungarian gyalog
'on foot' and Finnish jalka 'foot' is intriguing as a lectio difficilior potior (‘the more difficult reading is the
stronger’) in classical philology. Even difficilior (‘more difficult’) is a relation between Hungarian orr
'nose' and Finnish vuori 'mountain', but why not? The nose is the more prominent part of our face and a
lot of languages use 'nose' in geographical sense, e.g. Mari ner 'nose' and 'hill, headland, promontory',
English nose and ness (archaic) 'promontory or headland', Bulgarian nos 'nose' and 'promontory',
Albanian hundë 'nose' and 'promontory', Turkish burun 'nose' and 'promontory'.
Marcantonio (2002) has taken into consideration most of the body-part terms I mentioned above but
her conclusions are different from mine.
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