Hungarian Historical Phonology köles

köles 'millet'

First attestation/Old Hungarian data

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Important dialectal forms

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Uralic/Ugric/Pre-Hungarian reconstruction

? *külVćV

(Disputed:)

UEW: PUg *kȣ̈lɜ (kȣ̈lɜ-ćɜ), kȣ̈lɜćɜ 'millet; Hirse'

WOT: *köläćə

Status of the Ugric etymology

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Loan etymology

None suggested

Cognates suggested in earlier research

Mansi: North (So) kolas 'Mehl'

Commentary

Despite the limited distribution of the word in Mansi, a Proto-Ugric form *külVćV can be formally reconstructed: both Hu ü and North Mansi o can be derived from Proto-Ugric *ü regularly. WOT reconstructs PUg *ö, but it is unclear why this should be the case.

UEW considers *ćV a possible derivational suffix, but also mentions that thrisyllabic stems might have been possible in Proto-Ugric already. It is difficult to consider this word a derivative, as no further etymology is known.

Conclusion

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References

EWUng

UEW: Proto-Ugric Uralonet

WOT: 1312: PUg