Hungarian Historical Phonology meleg

meleg 'warm'

First attestation/Old Hungarian data

Old Hungarian (?) Melek, see UEW

Important dialectal forms

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Uralic/Ugric/Pre-Hungarian reconstruction

Pre-Hungarian ? *mälä-ŋkV

Abondolo 1996: 67: PUg *mäli

UEW: PUg *mälɜ ‘warm, become warm; warm; warm werden‘

Status of the Ugric etymology

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Loan etymology

None suggested so far

Cognates suggested in earlier research

Khanty: East (V) meḷək, (Trj) mȧ̆ḷəŋk, North (O) melək 'warm'

Mansi: South (TJ) mǟlī·t, mǟli 'Tauwetter', East (KU) mɔ̈̄ltəp, West (P) maľtəp, North (So) māltip 'Tauwetter',

Proto-Ob-Ugric:  ?

Commentary

The vowel-correspondences are regular, so a stem *mälä- could be reconstructed for Proto-Ugric. The words in Khanty, Mansi and Hungarian reflect independent derivatives: no Proto-Ugric derivative can be reconstructed.

UEW considers this stem a nomenverbum, but there are no arguments for this, as no verbal stem is attested anywhere in Ugric.

Conclusion

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References

Abondolo 1996: 67: PUg

EWUng

Honti 1982

UEW: Proto-Ugric Uralonet