Hungarian and Eskimo-Aleut

ALFRÉD TÓTH : HUNGARIAN AND ESKIMO-ALEUT — with Paleo-Siberian Cognates
Hungarian kúszik “to climb; to crawl, to creep”
Proto-Yupik *ku(C)im∂- “to swim”
Sumerian kas4 “to run”
Hungarian kút “well”
Proto-Eskimo *kut∂ “to drop”
Akkadian kutū “vessel, jug”
Hungarian kutak “small, tiny”
Proto-Eskimo *kut∂ “to drop”
Akkadian qatnu “(to be) weak; (to be) low; (to be) thin”
Hungarian kutya “dog”
Proto-Eskimo *qiluγ- “to bark”
Sumerian kuda (5x: ED IIIa, Old Babylonian, 1st millennium) wr. kud-da “an
animal”
Hungarian küllő “spoke (of a wheel)”
Proto-Inuit *t∂γu(R)liq “handle”
Sumerian kul (3x: Old Babylonian) wr. kul “a handle”
Hungarian kürni “to bind, to tie, to be bound in the yoke (of oxen)”
Proto-Altaic *kèra- “to bind, to wind around”
Proto-Finno-Ugric *kärз- “to bind, to tie”
Yukagir c’olo- “to tie on, to add”
Sumerian gir, wr. gir11 “to yoke, harness”
Hungarian küsz “a kind of freshwater fish, Alburnus alburnus”
Proto-Finno-Ugric *kiśkз “a kind of small fish”
Proto-Eskimo *citu(C)aR “beluga”
Sumerian gizi (1x: ED IIIa) wr. gi-ziku6 “a fish”
Hungarian küszöb “threshold, doorstep”
Proto-Inuit *avluR∂q “threshold” [?], perhaps with metathesis sz – b > v – s and
rhotacism s > r.
Akkadian askuppu “threshold”
Hungarian küzdeni “to battle, to fight, to contend, to strive for”
Proto-Finno-Ugric *k8śз “game, race; to play, to race”
Proto-Eskimo *curδuγ- “to attack”
Sumerian gaz (402x: ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Lagash II, Ur III, Early Old
Babylonian, Old Babylonian) wr. gaz; gaz2; kaz8 “to kill, slaughter; to
grind, grate; to beat; to thresh (grain); to execute, impose a death
sentence; to break”
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