Hungarian Historical Phonology -hoz

-hoz, -hëz, -höz 'allative case ending'

hozzá- 'zu-, an-, bei- (VPräf.)'

hozzám 'zu mir'

First attestation/Old Hungarian data

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Important dialectal forms

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Uralic/Ugric/Pre-Hungarian reconstruction

(Disputed:)

UEW: PUg *kućɜ 'time; Zeit'

Status of the Ugric etymology

Improbable (phonologically irregular)

Loan etymology

None suggested

Cognates suggested in earlier research

UEW:

Khanty: East (V) kut́əŋ 'Nähe, Raum neben etwas', South (DN) χăt́: ĕjχăt́joŋ 'elf (ĕj 'eins', joŋ 'zehn')', North (O) χŏśȧ 'zu'

Commentary

UEW reconstructs Proto-Ugric *kućV. While this would account for the Hungarian o-vocalism, the voiced sibilant z is completely irregular as the reflex fo *ć (it has to be noted here that the reflexes of Proto-Ugric *ć as reconstructed by UEW show unexpected variation within Hungarian, Khanty, and Mansi, but there is no evidence to assume Hu z < *ć).

Conclusion

A Proto-Ugric word cannot be reconstructed because of the irregularities.

References

UEW s.v. kućɜ: ? PUg Uralonet