Hungarian Historical Phonology les

les 'lauern, nachstellen, nachspähen'

les 'Hinterhalt, Lauer, Anstand'

First attestation/Old Hungarian data

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Important dialectal forms

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Uralic/Ugric/Pre-Hungarian reconstruction

UEW: *läćɜ- ‘hiding place; lurk; Lauer, Anstand; lauern‘

Status of the Ugric etymology

Probable

Loan etymology

None suggested

Cognates suggested in earlier research

UEW:

Khanty: North lāśi 'Anstand', lāśi- 'lauern'

Mansi: South (TJ) läć-, East (KU) lɔ̈̄ś-, West (P) lāś-, North (So) lāś-

Commentary

The Ugric etymology seems regular, as all languages point to Proto-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *ä; however Hu s from PUg *ć appears only in a few etymologies. Since there are no convincing Uralic etymologies with this correspondence, it is possible that *ć is an innovation introduced in the Ugric vocabulary.

References

UEW: PUg Uralonet