Hungarian Historical Phonology jön

jön 'come'

First attestation/Old Hungarian data

[coming]

Important dialectal forms

[coming]

(see UEW)

Uralic/Ugric/Pre-Hungarian reconstruction

(Disputed:)

UEW: PUg (? PFU) *jȣ̈ŋɜ-, jȣ̈γɜ- (jȣ̈kɜ-) 'come; kommen'

Status of the Ugric etymology

Improbable (phonologically irregular)

Loan etymology

None suggested

Cognates suggested in earlier research

UEW:

Khanty: East (V) jö̆- (jö̆γ-) 'kommen, ankommen', South (DN) jĕ- (jĕw-) 'kommen, ankommen, werden, anfangen', North (O) ji- 'kommen, werden, anfangen' < ? Proto-Khanty *jüγ-

Mansi: South (TJ) jüw-, East (KU) jīw-, West (P) ji-, North (So) ji- 'kommen' < ? Proto-Mansi *jiw

Finnish: jää- 'stay' (the cognacy rejected by SSA)

Commentary

The reconstruction of a Proto-Ugric word seems impossible: even the relations within the varieties of Khanty and Mansi are unclear and irregular.

Even though the Ugric words cannot be considered regular cognates, they are clearly somehow connected, but it is difficult to say more about the ultimate origin of these verbs.

UEW mentions Fi jää- 'stay' as a possible cognate, but this connection is rejected by SSA (s.v. jää-) and Honti (2013: 204). The connection would be phonologically impossible and also semantically unlikely.

Conclusion

Due to the irregular phonological relations, we are probably not dealing with a real Proto-Ugric lexeme.

References

EWUng

Honti 1982

Honti 2013: PUg, not PFU

SSA s.v. jäädä: Fi jää- not here

UEW s.v. jȣ̈ŋɜ-, jȣ̈γɜ- (jȣ̈kɜ-): PUg or PFU Uralonet