Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian (EDH)

ALFRÉD TÓTH : ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF HUNGARIAN (EDH)
5. Sumarian and Hungarian
5. Sumerian and Hungarian
Preliminary remarks: Gostony’s “Dictionnarie d’étymologie sumérienne” (Paris 1975) is ordered – as
one would await from a Sumerian dictionary – according to the Sumerian words and word-groups. Yet,
the ordering is not alphabetical, but according to special themes, i.e. semantically. (Inside of the
semantic groups the order is not alphabetical either.) Moreover, the book has no register (a general
disease of French scientific works). Furthermore, the semantic grouping of the Sumerian words results
in the fact, that one and the same Hungarian word can occur (and many really do) more than one time.
Several Sumerian words, too, appear more than once. These problems are the first reason, why I
decided to order Gostony’s dictionary alphabetically according to the Hungarian words. In doing so, we
get 1042 etymological articles, whose first line consists of the Hungarian entry, the second line of the
sources (Sumerian dictionaries, vocabularies, glossaries, etc. used by Gostony) and the third line of the
Sumerian etymon. The second reason, why I give here the full Sumerian-Hungarian list is, of course,
because none of the languages, that will be compared with this list, contains all and the same entries as
the Sumerian-Hungarian list.
1 a, az “that”
ŠL 480; Gost. 835
Sum. aš
2 Aba (proper name)
Gost. 902
Sum. Aba
3 ablak “window”
ŠL 128; MSL V 186; Gost. 462
Sum. ab-lal
4 adni “to give”
ŠL 183; MSL III 202, 291; Gost. 305
Sum. ag, ang
5 ág “branch”
ŠL 334; Gost. 124
Sum. á
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