Hungarian and Eskimo-Aleut

ALFRÉD TÓTH : HUNGARIAN AND ESKIMO-ALEUT — with Paleo-Siberian Cognates
Eskimo-Aleut ila “relative, friend, part”
Sumerian ba (2x: Old Babylonian) wr. ba3; ba7 “half; thirty”
Akkadian palāhum “to work (the earth), to plow” > Arabic falahā “to plow”
Hungarian fél “half; one side (of two)”
Proto-Uralic *pälä “half; side”
Proto-Uralo-Siberian *pel(aγ)- “to cut up, flense”
Aleut hilγi- “to dig (out)”
Sumerian ba (2x: Old Babylonian) wr. ba3; ba7 “half; thirty”
Hungarian felhő “cloud”
Proto-Altaic *bulu, *bula, *bulo
Proto-Finno-Ugric *pilwe-, *pilŋe
Proto-Eskimo *p∂lu(R) “dust”
Sumerian ibi (18x: Old Akkadian, Old Babylonian) wr. i-bi2; i3-bi2; ibbi;
ibbix(NE) “smoke”, bil (50x: Ur III, Old Babylonian) wr. bil2; bil3; bil
“to burn”
Hungarian fém “metal”, fémlik “to shine”, fény “light”
Proto-Inuit *qauma- “to be bright” [?]
Sumerian bur (78x: ED IIIa, Old Akkadian, Ur III) wr. bur2; bu7 “light; to glow,
shine”
Hungarian fenni “to hone, to sharpen, to whet; to rub in”
Proto-Finno-Ugric *pänз(-) “whet; whetstone”
Eskimo-Aleut piŋu- “to push”
Aleut hiŋu- “id.”
Chukotko-Kamch. p∂nae- “to whet, to sharpen”
Sumerian kin (2x: Old Akkadian, Old Babylonian) wr. kin2 “to grind”
Hungarian fene “damned, devilish, infernal”
Proto-Finno-Ugric *pene
Proto-Eskimo *p∂ŋ∂γ- “to be worried”
Sumerian ib (35x: Ur III, Old Babylonian) wr. ib2 “(to be) angry; to curse” + nam
kud (72x: ED IIIb, Ur III, Old Babylonian) wr. nam kud “to curse”
Hungarian féreg “noxious animal; vermin; worm”
Proto-Altaic *p’iáru “a kind of worm”
Proto-Finno-Ugric *perkз, *perkkз “worm”
Proto-Eskimo *P∂r∂- “to bend”
Sumerian piriĝ (205x: ED IIIa, ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Lagash II, Ur III, Old
Babylonian) wr. piriĝ; piriĝ3; bi2-ri-iĝ3; ĝešpiriĝ; piriĝ2 “lion; bull, wild
bull”
Akkadian parākum “to wriggle, to squirm (snake)”
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