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ALFRÉD TÓTH : THE COMMON MESOPOTAMIAN SUBSTRATE OF HUNGARIAN AND BASQUE
Hungarian
Proto-Ugric
Basque
Sumerian
meleg “warm”
*mälз(-) “warm; to become warm”
bero “heat; hot”
bil (50x: Ur III, Old Babylonian) wr. bil2; bil3; bil “to burn”
Hungarian
Proto-Ugric
Basque
Sumerian
mese “fairy tale”
*mańćз-, *maćз- “to narrate; story”
mintza-tu “to speak”
maškim (3492x: ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Lagash II, Ur III, Early Old
Babylonian, Old Babylonian) wr. maškim “an administrative position;
a demon”
Hungarian
Basque
Sumerian
mészárolni “to butcher”, metélni “to cut (off)”, metszeni “to
cut, to carve”
motz “short”, moz-tu “to cut”
bur (3x: Old Akkadian, Ur III) wr. burx(|KA׊U|) “to cut”
Hungarian
Proto-Uralic
Basque
Sumerian
mondani “to say, to speak”
*m8nз-, *monзmintza-tu
“to speak”
mu (8x: ED IIIb, Old Babylonian) wr. mu7 “to make a sound”
Hungarian
Proto-Finno-Ugric
Basque
Sumerian
nagy “big, tall”
*n8ńćз “hard, strong”
nagusi “boss, chief”, nagusi-tu “to grow up”
niga (12565x: Old Akkadian, Lagash II, Ur III, Early Old Babylonian,
Old Babylonian, 1st millennium) wr. niga; niĝ2-gu7-a “(to be)
fattened”
Hungarian
Basque
Sumerian
nehéz “heavy; difficult, complex”
nahas-tu “to confuse; to mix, to blend; to mess up”
ne (41x: ED IIIb, Ur III, Old Babylonian) wr. ne3 “strength; force”
Hungarian
Proto-Finno-Ugric
Basque
Sumerian
nyugszik, nyugod-, nyugv- “to rest”, nyugodt “quiet, calm”,
nyugat “west”
*ńuŋз- “to rest, to relax; to sleep”
nagi “lazy, idle”
ni gid, wr. ni2 gid2 “to stretch oneself, to relax?”
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