Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian (EDH)

ALFRÉD TÓTH : ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF HUNGARIAN (EDH)
18. Conclusions
18. Conclusions
In chapter 3, we found that from the ten Finno-Ugric languages Hungarian, Vogulic, Ostyak,
Syryen, Cheremis, Mordwin, Finnic, Estonian, Lapponic and the two Samoyed languages
Nganasan and Selkup, the Finno-Ugric group shares only 31.91% of common words – ranging
from 34% down to 10.0%, the two Symoyed languages only 22%, and therefore the average
percentage of all Uralic languages is as low as 26.95%. Given these calculations, according to
the Swadesh list and its related statistics, Proto-Uralic should have existed about 9000 years
ago, the separation of the Samoyed languages should have happened even 2000 years earlier –
in open contradiction with the fact, that then they split before they got a member of the
Proto-Uralic family, etc. What we want to point out is that the Uralic theory leads itself ad
absurdum.
On the other side, Hungarian shares 91% of its basic vocabulary with Sumerian and 7% with Akkadian,
the other big language spoken at about the same time in Mesopotamia, before the Sumerians started to
emigrate. Starting with the Sumerian-Hungarian theory, only 2% of the Hungarian words are
meanwhile still “of unknown origin”. However, in chapter 4, we showed, that according to four
standard etymological dictionaries of Hungarian, between 25% and 39% of the Hungarian words are
“of unknown origin” – and an extremely high percentage - probably more than 50% - is in addition to
them of “uncertain”, “difficult”, “problematic” etc. origin. We draw two conclusions out this facts:
First, the Finno-Ugric and Uralic theories at unscientific, because they contradict their own principles,
and second, there are neither a Finno-Ugric nor an Uralic language family. The few common words
that the Northern “Finno-Ugric” and the Samoyed languages share with Hungarian, have all their roots
in Sumerian and must therefore be explained via borrowing from Hungarian.
In the following, we shall show the respective percentages of shared cognates between Sumerian,
Hungarian and the other languages that have been scrutinized in this book:
Chapter 5: Hungarian = Sumerian: 1042 words = 100%
Chapter 6: Hungarian = “Finno-Ugric” languages: 31.9%
Chapter 7: Hungarian = Caucasian: 7%
Chapter 8: Hungarian = Bantu: 8%
Chapter 9: Hungarian = Etruscan: 33% (but here the reference was not Gostony 1975)
Chapter 10: Hungarian = Tibeto-Burman: ca. 50% (here, the reference was not Gostony 1975,
either)
Chapter 11: Hungarian = Munda: 33%
Chapter 12: Hungarian = Dravidian: 36%
Chapter 13: Hungarian = Chinese: 61%
Chapter 14: Hungarian = Japanese: 23%
Chapter 15: Hungarian = Turkish: 55%
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