Hungarian Historical Phonology szeg

szëg 'Nagel; Winkel, Ecke'

First attestation/Old Hungarian data

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Important dialectal forms

szög (see UEW)

Uralic/Pre-Hungarian reconstruction

? *siŋkV < *śiŋkV

(Disputed:)

UEW: PUg *seŋkɜ 'wedge; Keil'

Cognates suggested in earlier research

Mansi: North (So) saŋ̥k˳, South (TK) süŋ, West (P) säŋk, (LU) säŋ̥k˳ə 'Keil'

Loan etymology

PUg ← Indo-Iranian *ćanka- (see Korenchy 1972, Holopainen 2019 with references)

Commentary

The loan etymology is semantically convincing, but the unclarities in the reconstruction of the vocalism of the Ugric words makes it uncertain.

Conclusion

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References

EWUng

Holopainen 2019

Korenchy 1972

UEW: PUg *seŋkɜ Uralonet