Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian (EDH)

ALFRÉD TÓTH : ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF HUNGARIAN (EDH)
16. Austronesian and Hungarian
butrang, bula-ni, bula-r, buran, balan, fhūlan, fuhlan, phulan, phula-ni, wula-ni, hulan, hula-ni,
hula-nita, vulan, haran, huran, ula-no, hura-no, o’ra, puna-lah, pana-la, bulan, burat’n, boron,
bulin, bulen, bulien, būlan “moon”, bula, bura, pulan, bura-k, pura-k, fura-u “white”, walé-an
“bright”
Mon-Khmer pālā-tēwa “flame”, pala-leät “lightning”, bâlîk “heaven, sky”, palee “to gleam, to
shine”, puloe, puloi, paloy, paloye “star”, bulan, boulan, bula’n, bula-tnah, bûlen, bölan “moon”,
bölang “white”
Austral. wala(nu), warra-ngo, bālu, buar, witpar, buril, burrā-ga “sun”, waru, pari, buri, burri
“fire”, para(la), u(a)la-da, wurra-yu, yow-warra, bari-ńanin, bare-mbuke, da-wara, bālu, ge-wara,
wugga-wurri, bala-no, bala-n, bulla-nu, bo-warri, e-barra, pāla, bála-nit’i “moon”
Tasman. walli-ga “firewood”
82 világ “world”, világos “light”, villám “lightning”, villanni “to flash, to sparkle”, villogni “to flash,
to sparkle”
ŠL 172; Gost. 350, 451; Rivet, p. 18
Sum. bil
Melan. fili, fila, bila, bile, file, vila, vile, hílle, hille, uila “lightning”, bera-ura, da-buero, sa-bweru,
vera, vel’a, vela, hila-hila “sun”, ve-vera “warm”, na-vila-ra “red”, sae ni pelu-pelu “heated until
red”, bila, bila-fila “to gleam, to shine”, uena “moon”
Polyn. uila, uhila, wila, u-wila, uira, ra-uira “lightning”, wela “heat of the sun or of the fire”; to
burn”, kaa-wela, ta-wera “Venus”, uira “to gleam, to shine”, wera “burnt, hot; heat”, vera, velavela,
hvera, vera-vera, vere “hot”, vera “sun, fire”, vera-vera “heat; to burn”, vela “to burn”, vevela
“heat”, wheriko “to sparkle”, whero “red”
Indon. uila, vila, bila “lightning”, pelah, felas, pelas “hot”, pela-pela-ka, pila-pila-ka “sparkle”,
pero, pero’, perok, prok “fire”, wellu-wellu, bli-tek, beli-lek, beli-leak, bili-leak, bili-lek “moon”,
pelua “star”
Mon-Khmer pla, pla uń “flame”, phlö “sparkle”, blai “flash of lightning”, blēd, blit “lightning”,
phlü “daylight”, peluih, peloi “star”, bila’, u-bynai, b’ni, u-b’nāi, u-p’nui “moon”, blai “white”
Austral. wilu-ka “sun”, berri, wirā, wíla “fire”, wila-ra, pira, bira, birie, perrie, da-wera “moon”
Tasman. weena-r, winna, weela “forest”, winna-leah “fire”, weena, vena, weenah leah “moon”
3. Conclusions
If one has a look at these 82 etymologies, one recognizes immediately, that most etymologies are
shining up in Melanesian and Indonesian, then in Polynesian, then in Australian, also often in Mon-
Khmer, but more seldom in Tasmanian and very seldom in Micronesian. This does not support Rivet’s
assumption, that the Sumerians spread out from Oceania in order to build a far-reaching substrate, that
reaches from the South Seas to the Mediterranean and from Africa to the Americas. Our results suggest
the contrary assumption: That the Sumerians spread out from Mesopotamia via India, China, Tibet,
Japan further into the south and as far as Tasmania. As a matter of fact, they left there traces in the
Oceanian world, that reaches from Madagascar in the West to the Easter Islands in the East – more
than half a turn around the globe. The fact, that even so distant people like a Maori and a Hawaiian can
understand one another without bigger problems, shows that we have to assume in this far-reaching
area basically one huge substrate: the Sumerian, as was correctly assumed by Rivet (1929). Also von
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