Hungarian Historical Phonology menyül

mënyül

kimënyül 'verrenkt werden, sich verrenken'

kimënyít 'verrenken, ausrenken'

First attestation/Old Hungarian data

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Important dialectal forms

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Uralic/Ugric/Pre-Hungarian reconstruction

Zhivlov 2016: 298:

PUg *minV-

UEW:

PUg *menɜ- ‘tear, rip; reißen‘

Status of the Ugric etymology

Plausible

Loan etymology

None suggested so far

Cognates suggested in earlier research

Khanty: SOuth (DN) mĕṇč- 'reißen, zerreißen', mĕnemə- 'abreißen, abbrechen', North (O) mȧ̆nsi- 'reißen, zerreißen', menəm- 'abreißen, abbrechen' < PKh *mäṇəm- (Zhivlov 2016)

Mansi: South (TJ) mänė·mt- 'reißen herunter', East (K) mänit- 'fölránt; emporreißen', West (P) mänəmt- 'zerreißen', North (So) manəmtaχt- 'zerreißen' < PMs *mänəmt- (Zhivlov 2016)

Commentary

The Ugric etymology is supported by Zhivlov (2016) in his discussion of the emergence of Khanty retroflex nasal. Zhivlov reconstructs the Proto-Ugric word as *minV-. All the suggested reflexes clearly point to *i, so UEW's reconstruction with *e is erroneous. If the retroflex *ṇ should indeed be reconstructed into Proto-Ugric, as Zhivlov (2016) quite convincingly argues, the reconstruction of the Proto-Ugric word should be *miṇV-.

Conclusion

A regular Ugric etymology.

References

MSzFE

UEW s.v. menɜ-: Proto-Ugric Uralonet

Zhivlov 2016: 298: Proto-Ugric