Hungarian and Eskimo-Aleut

ALFRÉD TÓTH : HUNGARIAN AND ESKIMO-ALEUT — with Paleo-Siberian Cognates
Hungarian tok “box, case, chest, scabbard, sheath”
Proto-Eskimo *qat∂γ- “chest”
Sumerian dug (3196x: ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Lagash II, Ur III, Early Old
Babylonian, Old Babylonian) wr. dug; dugx(BI) “(clay) pot; a unit of
liquid capacity”
Hungarian tokhal “sturgeon” (hal “fish”)
Proto-Eskimo *ayaγta “pole” (cf. German Stock-fisch, Stock “stick, pole”, Northern
German Kabel-jau, Kabel “cable > cord > stick, pole”)
Sumerian dug (3196x: ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Lagash II, Ur III, Early Old
Babylonian, Old Babylonian) wr. dug; dugx(BI) “(clay) pot; a unit of
liquid capacity”. Same etymology as Hung. tok “box”, cf. semantically
the parallele of Hung. tok and tokhal with English sturgeon (via
Normannic < Old French esturjon) and to stir from the common
Germanic etymon sturio “sturgeon” (> Old English styria).
Hungarian toklyó “one- or two-year old lamb”
Proto-Eskimo *∂pnaRiR “mountain sheep”
Sumerian tukur (8x: Old Babylonian) wr. tukur2; tukur; tukur3 “to shear, pluck
wool”. Semantically cf. Engl. sheep, Germ. Schaf to Germ. schaben
“to scrape” > “to cut, to trim, to shear”.
Hungarian toll “feather; pen”
Proto-Uralic *tulka “feather; wing”
Proto-Uralo-Siberian *tuγlï, *tiluγ “wing, feather”
Eskimo-Aleut culuγ “wing feather”
Inuit telxp “id.”
Yupik siluk “id.”
Chukotko-Kamch. til(til) “wing”
Sumerian dal (59x: Ur III, Old Babylonian) wr. dal; dalx(HU) “to fly”
Hungarian tolni “to push, to shove; to delay, to postpone”
Proto-Finno-Ugric *tojз- “to push, to shove, tu thrust”
Proto-Eskimo *kayu- “to be strong”, *kay∂m∂(t)- “to push (forward)”
Sumerian du (82x: ED IIIb, Lagash II, Ur III, Old Babylonian) wr. du7 “to push,
thrust, gore”
Hungarian tolvaj “thief”
Proto-Uralic *sala(-) “to hide; to steal; thief”
Eskimo-Aleut teγleγ- “id.”
Aleut cxa- “id.”
Chukotko-Kamch. tu-lRaet- “to steal”
Sumerian sul, wr. su-ul “to cover”
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