Hungarian and Eskimo-Aleut

ALFRÉD TÓTH : HUNGARIAN AND ESKIMO-ALEUT — with Paleo-Siberian Cognates
Sumerian si sa (410x: ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Lagash II, Ur III, Early Old
Babylonian, Old Babylonian, Middle Babylonian) wr. si sa2; si si-sa2 “to
make straight; to make vertical”
Akkadian ešērum
Hungarian figyelni “to notice, to observe, to pay attention”
Proto-Eskimo *piδaq∂(naR)-, *piδaR(naR)- “to be difficult”
Sumerian pad (2313x: ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Lagash II, Ur III, Early Old
Babylonian, Old Babylonian, Middle Babylonian) wr. pad3 “to find,
discover; to name, nominate”
Hungarian fog “tooth”
Proto-Ugric *piŋe “tooth”
Eskimo-Aleut k∂p∂- “to cut” (with metathesis?)
Inuit k∂pk∂p “tooth”
Sumerian gug (45x: ED IIIb, Ur III, Old Babylonian) wr. gug; gug6 “tooth; blade;
beak; dogbite”
Hungarian fogni “to catch”, fogoly “prisonner”, fogadni “to take”, foglalni
“to occupy, to seize”
Proto-Ugric *puŋз- “to catch, to get”
Eskimo-Aleut pakiγ- “to hook fingers onto”
Yukagir paŋk(u)-l “net” [?]
Sumerian pag (2x: Old Babylonian, Middle Babylonian) wr. pag “to enclose,
confine, cage (a bird)”
Hungarian fogyni “to decrease, to diminish, to lessen, to wane; to loose
weight”
Proto-Finno-Ugric *pučз- “to decrease, to reduce, to shrink”
Eskimo-Aleut *p∂k∂- “to jump up”
Aleut hiki- “to disappear”
Chukotko-Kamch. *piŋku- “to jump”
Yukagir pöγ-, pöŋk- “to run away”
Sumerian be (99x: ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Ur III, Old Babylonian) wr. be4; be6
“to deduct, remove; to diminish, reduce; to withdraw, receive (as an
allotment)”
Hungarian fojtani “to drown; to strangle”, fúlni “to suffocate”
Proto-Altaic *póga “to tie up”
Proto-Finno-Ugric *puwз-, *puŋз- “to suffocate, to smother”
Proto-Eskimo *∂p∂- “to suffocate”
Sumerian bul (27x: Ur III, Old Babylonian) wr. bul; i3-bul5-bul5 “to shake” [?]
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