Hungarian and Eskimo-Aleut

ALFRÉD TÓTH : HUNGARIAN AND ESKIMO-ALEUT — with Paleo-Siberian Cognates
Old Babylonian, Old Babylonian) wr. lal; lal2 “(to be) small, little;
minus sign; (to be) insignificant, low-value; diminution”
Hungarian le- (< lewe) “down (prefix)”, lenn, lent “below, down”
Proto-Finno-Ugric *l8 “lower, the lower part, sub, under”
Proto-Uralo-Siberian *al(a), ïl(a) “below”
Proto-Yupik *aci- < *al-t∂ (?) “lower part”
Chukotko-Kamch. qale-lle-ŋ “downriver”
Sumerian lal (9977x: ED IIIa, ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Lagash II, Ur III, Early
Old Babylonian, Old Babylonian) wr. lal; lal2 “(to be) small, little;
minus sign; (to be) insignificant, low-value; diminution”
Hungarian lé, levet “juice”, leves “broth, soup”
Proto-Finno-Ugric *leme, lēme “sap, soup”
Chukotko-Kamch.
n∂mi(n∂m) “broth”
Sumerian li, wr. li2 “oil; fat; cream”
Hungarian lebegni “to float, to hover; to hang”, lobogni “to blaze; to blow”,
lobogó “flag”
Proto-Finno-Ugric *lempз-, *lämpз- “to fly, to hang”
Proto-Inuit *napatkaq- “to fall head first”
Eskimo-Aleut n’apa- “to be upright”
Sirenikski japaR- “to raise”
Sumerian la (1399x: ED IIIa, ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Lagash II, Ur III, Early
Old Babylonian, Old Babylonian) wr. la2; la; lal2 “to hang, balance,
suspend, be suspended”, lu (2x: Old Babylonian) wr. lu9 “to flare up”.
The Hung. apophony thus already exists in Sum.
Akkadian alālum
Hungarian leg- “most, -(e)st (superlative suffix), legesleg- (elative suffix)
Proto-Finno-Ugric *l8ŋз “fairly, very”
Proto-Eskimo *ilumun “truly”
Sumerian limum (1x: Old Babylonian) wr. li-mu-um; li-im “one thousand”
Akkadian limu. These word-equations belong to the best proofs of the continuity
between Sum., Akk., Uralo-Sib., Ural., FU and Hung.
Hungarian légy “fly”
Proto-Finno-Ugric *l8ńćз
Proto-Eskimo *n∂vyuvaγ “fly”
Sumerian lili, wr. li-limušen “a bird”
Akkadian liligū
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