Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian (EDH)

232 vissza “back”
ALFRÉD TÓTH : ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF HUNGARIAN (EDH)
ŠL 211; Gost. 827; Kaz. 277
Sum. uš-sa
14. Japanese and Hungarian
Jap. motoru “to be/act contrary to, to deviate from, to go against”
233 víz “water”
ŠL 579; Gost. 54, 657; Kaz. 265
Sum. íd, biz, bis
Jap. mizu, Old Jap. mîdu “water”
234 zaj “Lärm”
ŠL 569/3, 8a; Gost. 193, 324; Kaz. 427
Sum. za-pa-ag, suh
Jap. soyo-: soyo-soyo “gently, softly (wind)”
235 zavarni “to disturb”
ŠL 569/3, 8a; Gost. 193, 324; Gost. 193, 324; Kaz. 397
Sum. za-pa-ag, suh
Jap. sawaru “to obstruct, to block the way, to interrupt”
3. Conclusions
These 235 etyma correspond to 23% of the common Sumerian-Hungarian etyma in Gostony (1975)
and to 40% of the Japanese-Hungarian etyma in Kazár (1980). The relatively low rate of common
Sumerian-Hungarian-Japanese etyma may be interpreted as a hint, that we have not to assume – like
e.g. in the case of Tibeto-Burman and the Munda languages – a migration of Hungarians to Japan, but
rather that the common etyma are due to the fact, that Japanese is a member of the Ural-Altaic
macrofamily.
4. Bibliography
Kazár, Lajos, Japanese-Uralic Language Comparison: Locating Japanese origins with the Help of
Samoyed, Finnish, Hungarian, etc. Hamburg 1980.
Menges, Karl H., Rewiev of Miller (1971). In: Central Asiatic Journal 18/3, 1974, pp. 193-201.
Miller, Roy Andrew, Japanese and the Other Altaic Languages. The University of Chicago Press 1971
Starostin, Sergei, Anna Dybo and Oleg Mudrak, Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages. 3
vols. Leiden 2003
Yoshiwara, R. (= Ahlberg, Roger), Sumerian and Japanese. Chiba (Japan) s.a.
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