Hungarian Historical Phonology szalu

szalu (dial.) 'Deichsel, Queraxt, Querbeil, Hohlbeil'

First attestation/Old Hungarian data

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Important dialectal forms

szalu is a dialect word

Uralic/Ugric/Pre-Hungarian reconstruction

(Disputed:)

UEW: PUg *sȣlkɜ (sȣlγɜ) 'axe for scooping; Hohlbeil'

Status of the Ugric etymology

Uncertain

Loan etymology

None suggested

Cognates suggested in earlier research

Khanty: East (V) suγəl, South (DN) soχət 'Hohlbeil' < ? Proto-Khanty *sūγəl ~ *sōγəl

Mansi: North (So) sowli 'Hohlbeil mit einem wendbaren Stiel' < ? Proto-Mansi *saγlV ~ *sɔγlV

Commentary

The reconstruction of the Proto-Ugric vowel remains completely uncertain in UEW's presentation. Hungarian a does not fit the Ob-Ugric vowels (Khanty V u, DN o, Mansi So o) regularly. Honti (2013) supports the etymology and discusses the word in the context of the reconstruction and development of *lk clusters.

The words for this techincal term in Khanty, Mansi and Hungarian can well be indpendent loans from the same source.

Conclusion

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References

EWUng

Honti 2013

MSzFE

UEW s.v. sȣlkɜ (sȣlγɜ): ? PUg Uralonet