Hungarian Historical Phonology herjó

herjo '(arch.) hawk'

First attestation/Old Hungarian data

? 1336 place name Heryou (WOT: 428)

Important dialectal forms

An archaic word, not listed in ÚMTSz

Uralic/Ugric/Pre-Hungarian reconstruction

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Loan etymology

Hu herjó < (Proto-Hungarian) *xirγuy ← West Old Turkic *χїrγuy < *kїrguy, cf. East Old Turkic kїrguy ‘sparrow hawk’. (WOT: 428-429)

Cognates suggested in earlier research

None

Commentary

EWUng considers the word of unknown origin, but the Turkic explanation found in WOT is convincing on both phonological and semantic level. The word can safely be considered a Turkic loan in Hungarian. There are several parallels to Hungarian h reflecting West Old Turkic *χ from Proto-Turkic *k (WOT: 1075, 1100). The e-vocalism in Hungarian as the reflex of Turkic *ï is not entirely clear, but the etymology is otherwise convincing. Because of the disharmonic stem, it is probable that e is secondary and the Hungarian word originally had *i̮.

Conclusion

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References

EWUng: 550, s.v. herjó: Unclear origin

WOT: 428-429: Hu ← Turkic