Hungarian Historical Phonology marok

marok 'hohle Hand; eine Handvoll; Garbe'

markol '(mit hohler Hand) greifen fassen'

First attestation/Old Hungarian data

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Important dialectal forms

marék

morok

Uralic/Ugric/Pre-Hungarian reconstruction

(Disputed:)

UEW: PUg *mȣrɜ 'hollow of the hand, palm of the hand; hohle Hand, Handteller'

Status of the Ugric etymology

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Loan etymology

None suggested

Cognates suggested in earlier research

Khanty: East (Trj) murəs 'ein Maß', South (DT) murəs 'Werschok', (Ko) murəs 'Abstand zwischen dem unteren Rand der flachen Hand und der Spitze des erhobenen Daumens' < ? PKh *murəs

Commentary

Khanty *u does not correspond regularly to Hungarian a, making the etymology uncertain.

Hu marok and Khanty murəs are derivatives.

Conclusion

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References

EWUng

UEW s.v. mȣrɜ: Proto-Ugric Uralonet