Hungarian Historical Phonology szár

szár 'Rohr Röhre; (Pflanze) Stengel, Halm'

labszár 'Unterschenkel, Bein'

? szárny 'Flügel'

First attestation/Old Hungarian data

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Important dialectal forms

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Uralic/Ugric/Pre-Hungarian reconstruction

? *sorə

UEW: PUg *sȣrɜ 'shin; Unterschenkel'

Status of the Ugric etymology

Uncertain

Loan etymology

None suggested so far

Cognates suggested in earlier research

UEW:

Khanty: East (V) köt-sor, 'Handwurzel', South (DN) sur 'Stiel der Spindel (vom Blatt bis zum Sitzholz)', North (O) so̭r 'Schaft (am Schuhzeug)' < PKh *sar (Zhivlov 2006)

Mansi: South (T) kät-sår 'Unterarm', East (KU) sar: lāl-sar 'Unterschenkel', West (P) sar: koåt-sar 'Unterarm', North So sor 'Unterschenkel' < PMs *sar (⁓ -ə) (Zhivlov 2006)

Commentary

The Ugric etymology seems probbable. In the vowel-reconstructions of Aikio (2013 handout) and Zhivlov (2014: 129, 139–141), the reflexes of Proto-Uralic *o-i stems show *a in Proto-Khanty. Also Hungarian á could point to PU/PUg *o, so based on these reflexes, Proto-Ugric *sorə could be reconstructed. However, Mansi *a does not regularly fit Proto-Khanty *a as a reflex of either *a or *o. It is uncertain whether the vocalism of all the Ugric cognates can be derived from one source regularly.

It remains uncertain what should exactly be reconstructed as the meaning of the Ugric word, but 'shin' reconstructed by UEW is a good possibility.

Conclusion

Due to uncertainties concerning the vocalism, the reconstruction of a Proto-Ugric word remains uncertain.

References

MSzFE: Proto-Ugric

UEW s.v. sȣrɜ: Proto-Ugric Uralonet