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ALFRÉD TÓTH : THE COMMON MESOPOTAMIAN SUBSTRATE OF HUNGARIAN AND BASQUE
Hungarian
Basque
Sumerian
bála “ball, bale, bundle”
bir- (prefix meaning repetition or duplication), bira “quick maneuver,
quick turn”, bira-tu “to turn, to revolve, to rotate”
bala (3308x: ED IIIa, ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Ur III, Early Old
Babylonian, Old Babylonian, unknown) wr. bal; bil2 “to rotate, to
turn over, to revolt”
Hungarian
ballagni “to move slowely, to wander”
Basque
ibili “to walk”
Sumerian
bala “to rotate, to turn over”
Akkadian
alākum “to go”
Rhaetic elukum “id.” (Brunner and Tóth 1987, p. 61)
Hungarian
Proto-Finno-Ugric
Basque
Sumerian
Akkadian
-bb (comparative suffix)
-mp-
hobe “better, preferable, adventageous”
mu (135x: ED IIIb, Ur III, Early Old Babylonian, Old Babylonian)
wr. mu5 “good, beautiful”
banū
Hungarian
Basque
Sumerian
béke “peace”
bake, pake “id.”
pag, wr. pag “to leave behind”
Hungarian
Basque
Akkadian
Sumerian
bírni “to be able to; carry; to stand”, bíró “judge”, birtokos
“owner”, birkózik “to wrestle, to struggle with sb.”
borrokatu “to fight”
birtu “fort”
birtu, wr. bi-ir-tu “id.”
Hungarian
Proto-Finno-Ugric,
Proto-Uralic (?)
Basque
Sumerian
Akkadian
bogyó “berry”
*pola
baia “berry”
abulillum, wr. a-bu-lil-lum “boxthorn berry”, buluh, wr. buluh;
šembuluh; ba-lu-hum “an aromatic tree or its resin”
bulīlu; balahhu
Rhaetic enbu, enpu, unbiu “fruit; berry” (Brunner and Tóth 1987, pp. 97, 99)
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