Hungarian Historical Phonology téved

téved 'irren, sich irren, im Irrtum sein, sich im Irrtum befinden; sich verirren, irregehen'

tévest (der.) 'verfehlen'

First attestation/Old Hungarian data

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Important dialectal forms

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Uralic/Ugric/Pre-Hungarian reconstruction

(Disputed:)

UEW: *tepɜ-

Status of the Ugric etymology

Regular

Loan etymology

None suggested

Cognates suggested in earlier research

Khanty: East (V) tĕw-, South (DN) tĕp-, North (O) tȧ̆p- 'sich verirren, sich verlaufen' < PKh *tip- (Zhivlov 2006)

Mansi: East (KU) tip- 'sich verirren', West (P) tip: kot tip- 'sich verirren', North (So) tip- 'sich verirren, irre gehen' < PMs *tip- (Zhivlov 2006)

Commentary

The vowel and consonant correspondences within the Ugric languages are regular. All the cognates point to *e in the first syllable.

The Hungarian verbs téved and téveszt are derivatives of the Ugric stem.

Conclusion

A Proto-Ugric word can be reconstructed.

References

Abondolo 1996

EWUng

Honti 1982

UEW s.v. tepɜ-: PUg Uralonet