Hungarian and Eskimo-Aleut
Hungarian and Eskimo-Aleut
Hungarian and Eskimo-Aleut
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ALFRÉD TÓTH : HUNGARIAN AND ESKIMO-ALEUT — with Paleo-Siberian Cognates<br />
šillum-)<br />
Akkadian šilingu<br />
<strong>Hungarian</strong> som “cornel, dogberry”<br />
Proto-Yupik-Serenikski *ciRunaq “horn, antler”<br />
Sumerian si (262x: ED IIIa, ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Lagash II, Ur III, Early Old<br />
Babylonian, Old Babylonian, Middle Babylonian) wr. si “horn”. Like in<br />
many languages (e.g. Engl. cornel, French corneille, Slowakian drien,<br />
etc.), the name of the cornel is derived form the word for “horn”.<br />
<strong>Hungarian</strong> sorvadni “to have atrophy, to decline, to pine/waste away”<br />
Proto-Uralic *šorwa- “to dry up, to become dry”<br />
Proto-Inuit *iyaŋa- “to be weak”<br />
Sumerian sur (69x: ED IIIb, Early Old Babylonian, Old Babylonian) wr. sur;<br />
sur8 “to press, squeeze; to flash; to drip; to rain; to milk”, cf.<br />
semantically German Aus-Zehrung, aus-zehren, lit. “to pull out, to<br />
squeeze out”.<br />
<strong>Hungarian</strong> sovány “lean, meager, thin”<br />
Proto-Finno-Ugric *čupa<br />
Proto-<strong>Eskimo</strong> *qup∂- “to split (lengthwise)”<br />
Sumerian sumun (522x: ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Ur III, Early Old Babylonian,<br />
Old Babylonian) wr. sumun “(to be) old; old wood, rot, decayed<br />
matter”<br />
<strong>Hungarian</strong> sőreg “sterlet”<br />
Proto-Yupik *q∂RiR- “to be shiny”<br />
Sumerian šer (29x: ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Ur III, Old Babylonian) wr. sir2; šeer<br />
“reddening, sunburn (?); (to be) bright; brilliance, ray”. Semantically,<br />
the Latin name of the sterlet is Acipenser stellatus, whereby stellatus<br />
means “with stars, shining”.<br />
<strong>Hungarian</strong> sügér “perch”<br />
Proto-<strong>Eskimo</strong> *qac∂li- “to sting”<br />
Sumerian suhur (66x: ED IIIa, ED IIIb, Old Babylonian) wr. suhurku6;<br />
ku6suhur “carp”<br />
<strong>Hungarian</strong> süket “deaf”<br />
Proto-<strong>Eskimo</strong> *tucilaR- “to be deaf”<br />
Sumerian sig (74x: Old Babylonian) wr. si-ig; šeg5 “(deathly) hush; (to be) silent”<br />
<strong>Hungarian</strong> sün, sül “porcupine”, sün-disznó “hedgehog” (disznó “swine”)<br />
Proto-Finno-Ugric *śije-le<br />
Proto-Inuit *isaluq “porcupine”<br />
Sumerian zuhul (4x: Old Babylonian) wr. zu-hu-ul “to pierce”<br />
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