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 />
<strong>Hungarian</strong> szekér “cart, wagon”<br />
Proto-Ugric *säkзrз “a kind of vehicle”<br />
Proto-Inuit *caka- “to rock back <strong>and</strong> forth”<br />
Sumerian zig (8574x: Lagash II, Ur III) wr. zig3 “to issue; to levy, raise, muster;<br />
to swell; to expend; to rise” + hara, wr. harax(|NUNUZ.AB2×BI|) “a<br />
part of a wagon”. Since in Sum. “the rising” one is associated with<br />
“seat”, szekér means a wagon with a seat.<br />
<strong>Hungarian</strong> szelni “to slice”, szelet “slice; part; schnitzel”<br />
Proto-Finno-Ugric *śälä-, *čälä- “to cut”<br />
<strong>Eskimo</strong>-<strong>Aleut</strong> całiγ- “to scrape skin clean”, cili- “to sharpen”<br />
<strong>Aleut</strong> saaliklaasi-X “skin scraper”<br />
Sumerian sil (119x: Ur III, Old Babylonian) wr. si-il; zil; silx(|EZEN×LAL2|);<br />
sil5 “(to be) remote; to split apart; to split, slit”<br />
<strong>Hungarian</strong> szél “edge”, széles “wide, broad”<br />
Proto-Ugric *śelз “edge, rim”<br />
Proto-<strong>Eskimo</strong> *aRvaγ “edge of h<strong>and</strong>”<br />
Sumerian sil (119x: Ur III, Old Babylonian) wr. si-il; zil; silx(|EZEN×LAL2|);<br />
sil5 “(to be) remote; to split apart; to split, slit”<br />
<strong>Hungarian</strong> szél, szel- “wind”<br />
Proto-<strong>Eskimo</strong> *anuq∂ “wind”<br />
Sumerian til (770x: ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Lagash II, Ur III, Early Old<br />
Babylonian, Old Babylonian) wr. til3 “to live”. Semantically, we have<br />
here the connection of “to breathe, to live” with “to blow; breath,<br />
wind”, cf. Greek ánemos “breath, wind”, Latin animus “mind”, Greek<br />
pneîn “to blow”, pneūma “breath, wind” > “mind, soul of the world”.<br />
<strong>Hungarian</strong> szem “eye”<br />
Proto-Uralic *śilmä<br />
Proto-<strong>Eskimo</strong> *∂δ∂ “eye”<br />
Chukotko-Kamch. c∂lae, l∂lae “eye”<br />
Sumerian sim (4x: Old Babylonian) wr. sim; si-im “to sieve, filter”<br />
<strong>Hungarian</strong> szén “coal”<br />
Proto-Finno-Ugric *śine “charcoal”, *ś8ne “tinder”<br />
Proto-Yupik-Sirenikski *una- “to h<strong>and</strong>le”<br />
<strong>Aleut</strong> una- “to cook, boil, bake, prepare food”<br />
Sumerian šeĝ (261x: ED IIIa, Old Akkadian, Ur III, Old Babylonian) wr. šeĝ6<br />
“to cook; to fire (pottery)”<br />
<strong>Hungarian</strong> szép “beautiful, h<strong>and</strong>some, pretty”<br />
Proto-Finno-Ugric *śeppä “clever”<br />
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