Hungarian Historical Phonology húz

húz 'pull, drag, haul'

First attestation/Old Hungarian data

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Important dialectal forms

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Uralic/Ugric/Pre-Hungarian reconstruction

Aikio 2015: 57: ? *kapotV-

UEW: PUg *karɜ ‘tear, pull, draw; ziehen, reißen‘

Status of the Ugric etymology

Plausible

Loan etymology

None suggested so far

Cognates suggested in earlier research

Khanty: East (Trj) kŏpi̮tə- 'zerstückeln, abstampfen, losmachen'; South (DN) χăpət- 'fällen, empor-, loswinden (einen Baum mit den Wurzeln, einen Erdklumpen, einen Baumschwamm)', North (O) χăpət- 'loswinden (z.B. aus dem Boden)' < Proto-Khanty *ki̮pǝt-

Mansi: South (TJ) kat-, East (KU) χat-, West (P) kat- ‘reißen’, North (So) χat- < Proto-Mansi *kat-

Commentary

The Ugric etymology presented in the UEW is plausible. However, there are some issues that require further comments: the first is the relationship of Hungarian húz to hoz 'to bring'. According to UEW, these two verbs are reflexes of the same Proto-Ugric stem, and the two different verbs in Hungarian are a result of a split (Wortspaltung). This explanation is dubious, as it does not explain the differences in the vocalism and word-final consonantism. Also, the meaning of the two verbs is not similar. There seem to be no reason to really consider hoz related to húz, and it is better to reject the idea.

The second issue is the reconstruction of the Proto-Ugric form. UEW reconstructs Proto-Ugric *u, but this is not really supported by any of the reflexes in the daughter languages. Aikio (2015: 57) reconstructs ? *kapotV-, mentioning the word as an example of similar vowel-contraction in Hungarian as in some other inherited words such as nyúl 'hare' < PU *ńomala (possibly true an intermediary stage *ńavolV according to Aikio). Many details in the history of Hungarian vowel-contractions are unclear and require further research, but reconstrucing Proto-Ugric *a fits the Khanty and Mansi data.

Conclusion

A convincing Ugric etymology

References

Abondolo 1996

Aikio 2015: 57 Proto-Ugric

EWUng

Honti 1982

UEW: Proto-Ugric Uralonet