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ALFRÉD TÓTH : HUNGARIAN AND ESKIMO-ALEUT — with Paleo-Siberian Cognates<br />

Central Asian Yupik najaγ “unmarried girl”<br />

Chukotko-Kamch. ∂ninae-lR∂n “elder brother”<br />

Sumerian nunus, munus (3079x: ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Lagash II, Ur III, Early<br />

Old Babylonian, Old Babylonian, 1st millennium) wr. munus; nu-nus<br />

“woman; female”<br />

<strong>Hungarian</strong> nép “people, folk”<br />

Proto-<strong>Eskimo</strong> *iŋuγ, *inuγ “human being”. This etymon may also be the basis for<br />

Hung. ember. In this case, Hung. ember <strong>and</strong> nép would go back to the<br />

same root.<br />

Sumerian me (2860x: ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Lagash II, Ur III, Old Babylonian)<br />

wr. me; em; am3 “to be” + pap (86x: Old Akkadian, Ur III, Old<br />

Babylonian) wr. pap “father; male, virile; brother”<br />

Akkadian abu “father”; cf. also for the first part Akk., Rhaet. nammaššū “to<br />

move; living being; population, people”<br />

<strong>Hungarian</strong> név “name”<br />

Proto-Uralic *nime<br />

Proto-Uralo-Siberian *nim∂ “name; call”<br />

<strong>Eskimo</strong>-<strong>Aleut</strong> n∂p∂ “sound, voice”<br />

Proto-Inuit *n∂maaq- “to groan”<br />

Chukotko-Kamch. n∂nn∂ “name” (< *n∂m(n∂m)?)<br />

Yukaghir neve, nim, niu “id.”<br />

Sumerian nam (567x: ED IIIb, Lagash II, Ur III, Old Babylonian) wr. nam; naaĝ2<br />

"ticket of of destiny, sign, mark", mu (2994x: ED IIIa, ED IIIb,<br />

Old Akkadian, Lagash II, Ur III, Early Old Babylonian, Old<br />

Babylonian) wr. mu “name; line of text; son”<br />

Akkadian nību “name”<br />

<strong>Hungarian</strong> nevetni, mövetni “to laugh”<br />

Proto-Ugric *m8kз- , *m8gз-<br />

Proto-<strong>Eskimo</strong> *mak∂- “to become loose” [?]<br />

Sumerian mu (18x: Old Babylonian) wr. mu7 “incantation, spell”, or from a<br />

word with the meaning “to make noise” (like e.g. “laugh”, German<br />

“lachen”, etc.): mu (9x: Old Babylonian) wr. mu11; ma5; mu7 “to<br />

crush, mangle”, mu (8x: ED IIIb, Old Babylonian) wr. mu7 “to make a<br />

sound”<br />

<strong>Hungarian</strong> nézni “to watch, to glance”, néző “augur (person)”<br />

Proto-Finno-Ugric *näke- “to see, to watch”<br />

Proto-Inuit *naku(R)- “to squint; to stare at”<br />

Akkadian natālum “to watch, to glance”<br />

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