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

Proto-Inuit *quqcuq-, *quqcuk- “to be yellowish”<br />

Sumerian sig (343x: ED IIIa, ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Lagash II, Ur III, Old<br />

Babylonian, 1st millennium) wr. sig “(to be) weak; (to be) low; (to be)<br />

thin; (to be) narrow”. “weak” concerning the soil means dry, <strong>and</strong><br />

natron-soil is dry, which makes the etymological connection to aszik,<br />

aszú (v.s.). Thus, the meaning of the PU form is wrong.<br />

<strong>Hungarian</strong> szil “elm”<br />

Proto-Finno-Ugric *śala<br />

Finnish salava “brittle willow”<br />

Yukagir s’al<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”. Sum. sil may also be<br />

the origin of Germ. Sal-weide “a kind of willow, Salix caprea”, which is<br />

of uncertain etymology (cf. Kluge 2002, p. 783), because to be brittle is<br />

a characteristic of willows (but not of the Salix caprea who thus must<br />

have gotten its denomination by analogy from other types of willows).<br />

<strong>Hungarian</strong> szilni “to chop, to cut, to plane, to slice”<br />

Proto-Finno-Ugric *śale- “to splice, to split”<br />

Proto-Inuit *t∂ža- “to slice for drying (fish or meat)<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> szimat “flair, foresight; scent, sense of smell”<br />

Proto-<strong>Eskimo</strong> *t∂p∂- “to smell”<br />

Sumerian šim (819x: ED IIIa, ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Ur III, Early Old<br />

Babylonian, Old Babylonian) wr. šim “aromatic substance”<br />

<strong>Hungarian</strong> szirony “a colourful, narrow lather strap”<br />

Proto-Inuit *k∂t∂k “strap for fastening sth.” [?]<br />

Sumerian sir (4x: Early Old Babylonian, Old Babylonian) wr. sir3; sir2 “to bind”<br />

<strong>Hungarian</strong> szirony “sleet, wet snow”<br />

Proto-Altaic *č’era “crust; snow crust”<br />

Proto-Uralic *śarз “frozen snow, ice-crust on the snow”<br />

Proto-<strong>Eskimo</strong> *aRi(t)- “to become wet”<br />

Sumerian kar (52x: Ur III, Old Babylonian) wr. kar2-kar2; kar2 “to blow; to light<br />

up, shine; to rise”<br />

<strong>Hungarian</strong> szirt “cliff, ledge, rock”<br />

Proto-Inuit *qiRa(ta)- “to be stiff”<br />

Sumerian sir, wr. sir5 “(to be) pointed”<br />

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