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ALFRÉD TÓTH : THE COMMON MESOPOTAMIAN SUBSTRATE OF HUNGARIAN AND BASQUE
Hungarian
Basque
Sumerian
üdíteni “to freshen, to refresh”, üde “fresh”
eder “pretty, beautiful, nice”
a tu (150x: ED IIIb, Ur III, Early Old Babylonian, Old Babylonian)
wr. a tu15; a tu17; a tu5 “to wash, bathe”
Hungarian
Proto-Finno-Ugric
Basque
Sumerian
ügy “lake, swamp; river, brook”
*sid’з “humidity, marshy, wet place”
iz- (prefix meaning “water, sea”)
id (1086x: ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Lagash II, Ur III, Old
Babylonian) wr. id2; id3; id6; id7; id5 “river, watercourse, canal”.
EWU, p. 1586, has the same etymon for ügy “matter” and ügy
“lake”, which is semantically impossible.
Hungarian
Basque
Sumerian
ülni “to sit”
aulki “chair, stool, small bench”
u (49x: Old Babylonian) wr. u3 “sleep”
Hungarian
Basque
Akkadian
űr “emtpy space”, üreg “hollow”, üres “empty”
arrobi “hole in a rock”; arroil “to dig; excavation; hollow”; arroita
“place of canyons”; arrue “chasm, gorge”; arrupe “bottom of the
chasm”; arruti, arruza “place of chasms”; urri “scarce, rare, little,
defective”, urritu “to diminish; to be scarse; to dwindle”
urrū “empty”
Hungarian
Proto-Finno-Ugric
Basque
Sumerian
ütni “to beat, to hit, to strike”
*süttз- “to beat, to strike”
usta “whip, scourge, lash”
tu, wr. tu14 “to beat; to weave”, tud (4x: Old Babylonian) wr. tud2
“to hit, beat”. Probably with metathesis tu > *ut.
Hungarian
Proto-Ugric
Basque
Sumerian
űzni “to chase, to hunt, to pursue”
*itз- “to jump, to run”
usta “whip, scourge, lash”
ed (595x: ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Lagash II, Ur III, Early Old
Babylonian, Old Babylonian) wr. ed3; |UD×U+U+U.DU| “to go
up or down, to ascend”
Hungarian
Basque
vár “fort, fortress”, város “city, town”
iri (< *ili) “town, village”, erri “village, town; people, nation”
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