Hungarian Historical Phonology jó

jó: java- 'good'

First attestation/Old Hungarian data

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Important dialectal forms

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Uralic/Ugric/Pre-Hungarian reconstruction

(Obsolete:)

UEW: PUg *jomɜ- (jamɜ-) 'good; gut'

Status of the Ugric etymology

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Loan etymology

None suggested

Cognates suggested in earlier research

Khanty: East (V) jĕm, South (DN) jĕm, North (O) jim 'good' < Proto-Khanty ?

Mansi: South (TJ) jomā·s, East (KU) joməs, West P joms 'good', North (So) jomas 'good' < ? Proto-Mansi *jɔmas

Commentary

The vowel-correspondences are irregular: even the correspondences within Khanty dialects are irregular (according to UEW the Proto-Khanty front vowel is caused by *j-, but this does not explain the aberrant correspondences in different dialects). The Ob-Ugric comparanda is listed by Honti (1982) among the words that cannot be reconstructed to Proto-Ob-Ugric (no 738.)

Conclusion

A Proto-Ugric reconstruction is impossible; the words can be parallel substrate loans.

References

EWUng

Honti 1982

UEW: Proto-Ugric Uralonet