Hungarian Historical Phonology fok

fok 'der hintere, dicke Teil; Rücken am Messer, Säbel, Hammer, Beil, an der Axt (Axthelm); Hacke, an der Nadel usw., Vorgebirge, Kap; Loch, Öhr an der Nadel, Loch an der Axt; Grad; (Treppe) Stufe, (Leiter) Sprosse; Grad, Würde, Titel'

First attestation/Old Hungarian data

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Important dialectal forms

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Uralic/Ugric/Pre-Hungarian reconstruction

(Disputed:)

UEW: PUg *pukkɜ 'back (of axe, knife, or cutting-tool); stumpfes Ende (der Axt, des Messers od. irgendeines Scheideinstrumentes)'

Status of the Ugric etymology

Improbable (phonologically irregular, semantically dubious)

Loan etymology

None suggested

Cognates suggested in earlier research

Khanty: East (Vj) pŏγ, South (DN) pŏw 'Nadelöhr', North (O) pŏw 'Angel (des Messers)' < PKh *puγ

Mansi: East (KU) juntəp-pop, North (So) jūntəp-pup 'Nadelöhr' < PMs ?

Commentary

UEW considers the Ugric etymology convincing, even though the problems with phonology are noted: Khanty w/γ cannot regularly reflect Ugric *kk, and the Mansi "cognate" lacks reflexes of *γ (UEW assumes this might have become lost before p). Due to these phonological problems, there is no reason to assume we are dealing with a Proto-Ugric word: also the semantic connection of the Hungarian and Ob-Ugric words is rather vague.

Conclusion

No PUg word can be reconstructed.

References

EWUng

UEW s.v. pukkɜ: Proto-Ugric Uralonet