Hungarian Historical Phonology cseg

(dial.) cseg 'Knoten, Knorren (am Holze); Klößchen'

(dial.) csög 'Knoten, Knorren (am Holze); Klößchen'

(dial.) csök 'Knoten, Knorren (am Holze); Klößchen'

(dial.) göcs 'Knoten, Knorren (am Holze); Klößchen'

First attestation/Old Hungarian data

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Important dialectal forms

The word occurs exclusively in dialects

Uralic/Ugric/Pre-Hungarian reconstruction

(Obsolete:)

UEW: PUg ? *ćȣ̈ŋkɜ 'knot; tie a knot; Knoten; einen Knoten knüpfen'

Status of the Ugric etymology

Implausible

Loan etymology

None suggested

Cognates suggested in earlier research

UEW:

Mansi: East (K) śiŋkəlt- 'einen Knoten knüpfen', (KU) śiχməl 'Knoten', West (P) śäŋkəl id.

Commentary

The etymology is considered uncertain by the UEW and the Ugric etymology is rejected by EWUng. The affricate cs in Hungarian is problematic, as it is not the regular reflex of Proto-Uralic *ć. Also the variation cseg ~ csek ~ göcs is difficult to explain and does not point to an inherited word. The origin of Mansi ś (< Proto-Mansi *ć) here is likewise unclear as the regular reflex of Proto-Uralic *ć in Mansi would be *s.

Conclusion

Due to phonological irregularities the Proto-Ugric etymology has to be rejected.

References

EWUng: 229, s.v. csög-bog: not Proto-Ugric

UEW s.v. ćȣ̈ŋkɜ: ? Proto-Ugric Uralonet