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

transfer”<br />

<strong>Hungarian</strong> vezetni “to lead, to guide”<br />

Proto-Finno-Ugric *wetä-<br />

Proto-<strong>Eskimo</strong> *tatyuR- “to lead by the h<strong>and</strong>” [?]<br />

Sumerian gid (13x: Ur III, Old Babylonian, Middle Babylonian) wr. gid2 “to<br />

drag, tow (a boat upstream); to pass along, transfer”<br />

<strong>Hungarian</strong> vézna “thin, slight”<br />

Proto-Finno-Volgaic *wäćkз “narrow, thin”<br />

Proto-Ugric *wäńćз, *wäćз “narrow, thin”<br />

Proto-Uralo-Siberian *wen(i)- “to stretch skin out to dry”<br />

Proto-Inuit *inniq- “to stretch skin for drying”<br />

<strong>Eskimo</strong>-<strong>Aleut</strong> ini- “to hang out”, ni-s “drying”<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”, gig (313x: ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Ur III, Old<br />

Babylonian) wr. gig “to be) sick”<br />

<strong>Hungarian</strong> vigyázni “to pay attention, to beware, to look out”<br />

Proto-Finno-Ugric *wića- “to notice, to see”<br />

Proto-<strong>Eskimo</strong> *taŋ∂R- “to see”<br />

Sumerian igi sig (8x: Old Babylonian) wr. igi sig10 “to see”<br />

<strong>Hungarian</strong> világ “light; world”, villám “lightening”, villanni “to flash, to<br />

sparkle, to twinkle”, villogni “to sparkle, to twinkle”,<br />

Proto-Finno-Ugric *walkз(-) “light, white; to light”, *wal’з- “to shine”<br />

Proto-<strong>Eskimo</strong> *tanqiR, *tanqiγ “light; moon”<br />

Sumerian bil (50x: Ur III, Old Babylonian) wr. bil2; bil3; bil “to burn”<br />

<strong>Hungarian</strong> vinni, visz- “to carry, to bring, to take”<br />

Proto-Finno-Ugric *wiγe-<br />

<strong>Eskimo</strong>-<strong>Aleut</strong> qani- “to accompany part of the way”<br />

Proto-Inuit *aa-t- “to take”<br />

<strong>Aleut</strong> aγa-t- “id.”<br />

Sumerian gaĝ (538x: Ur III) wr. gaĝx(IL2); ga-aĝ3 “to carry”. Same etymology as<br />

venni (s.v.).<br />

<strong>Hungarian</strong> virág “flower”, virítani “to bloom”, virradni “to dawn”,<br />

virrasztani “to stay awake”<br />

Proto-<strong>Eskimo</strong> *tanqiR, *tanqiγ “light; moon”<br />

Sumerian bur (78x: ED IIIa, Old Akkadian, Ur III) wr. bur2; bu7 “light; to glow,<br />

shine”. According to EWU (pp. 1640ss.), the word-families vir- <strong>and</strong><br />

vil- (cf. világ) belong together (but not the family virr-). The Sum.<br />

word bur, however, shows that this is not correct, the dark stem vowel<br />

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