Hungarian Historical Phonology jár

jár 'go'

First attestation/Old Hungarian data

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Important dialectal forms

No notable dialectal variation (ÚMTSz: 1134, s.v. jár)

Uralic/Pre-Hungarian reconstruction

? *juri- (Aikio 2002)

Cognates suggested in earlier research

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Loan etymology

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Commentary

Different Uralic etymologies have been suggested for the Hungarian word: Aikio (2002) offers the most convincing etymology, assuming that Hu jár reflects PU *juri- 'to go around'. The etymology involves the rare (and irregular?) change PU *u > Hu á, which makes it somewhat uncertain.

A Turkic loan etymology is suggested by Palló (1982).

Conclusion

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References

Aikio 2002

Palló 1982: Hu ← Turkic

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