Hungarian and Eskimo-Aleut

ALFRÉD TÓTH : HUNGARIAN AND ESKIMO-ALEUT — with Paleo-Siberian Cognates
Hungarian odor “cavity; lateral room in a barn”, odros “glutton”, odú
“hollow, cavity”, odvas “hollow”
Proto-Finno-Ugric *omte “(abdominal, chest) cavity”, *oŋte “hole, hollow”
Proto-Eskimo *uki- “to get a hole”
Sumerian udug (41x: Old Babylonian) wr. dudug; u2-dug4; udug “a demon (of
desert, mountain, sea, tomb)”, sidug (5x: Old Babylonian) wr. si-dug4;
sidug; sidug2 “cavity, hollow; depth; stream, wadi, gorge; (hunter's)
pitfall; pit”
Hungarian ok “cause, reason, motive”, okos “bright, reasonable”,
okoskodik “to brood, to muse”, okozni “to cause”
Proto-Inuit *uki- “to want more of sth.” [?]
Sumerian ak (3643x: ED IIIa, ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Lagash II, Ur III, Early
Old Babylonian, Old Babylonian) wr. ak; a “to do; to make; to act,
perform; to proceed, proceeding (math.)”
Hungarian okádni “to throw up, to puke”
Proto-Altaic *ōki-, *ōke- “to belch; to nauseate”
Proto-Finno-Ugric *okз- “to spew, to vomit”
Proto-Eskimo *q∂ciR “to spit” [?]
Sumerian ahan (2x: Ur III, Old Babylonian) wr. a-ha-an “to vomit”, or ak (3643x:
ED IIIa, ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Lagash II, Ur III, Early Old
Babylonian, Old Babylonian) wr. ak; a “to do; to make; to act,
perform”
Hungarian oldani (< ovdani) “to loosen, to open, to unravel”
Proto-Altaic *àŋa “hole, crack, gape”
Proto-Finno-Ugric *aŋa- “to loosen, to open up”
Eskimo-Aleut aŋ-va “open”
Eskimo-Aleut aŋi- “to loosen (by soaking)”
North Siberian Yupik aŋit- “to unwrap”
Aleut aŋi- “to start”
Estonian ava- “to open”
Finnish auko- “to open”
Proto-Eskimo uvi(t)- “to open eyes”
Sumerian ub (6x: Early Old Babylonian, Old Babylonian) wr. ub4 “cavity”.
Obviously, -b > v > *g > k.
Hungarian oltani “to graft (of plants); to inculcate/instill in sb.; to inoculate,
to vaccinate; to quench (of thirst)”
Proto-Ugric *alз-(ttз) “to add, to fit”
Proto-Yupik-Sirenikski *ilat∂- “to add”
Sumerian al du (29x: ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Ur III, Old Babylonian) wr. al du3
“to perform a type of hoeing; to dig”
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