Hungarian Historical Phonology tűz

tűz: tüzet 'fire'

First attestation/Old Hungarian data

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Important dialectal forms

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Uralic/Ugric/Pre-Hungarian reconstruction

? Pre-Hu *tüγVtV 'fire'

(Disputed:)

Abondolo: 1996: 62: PUg *tiki-tV

UEW: PUg *tüγɜ-tɜ, tüwɜ-tɜ- ‘fire; feuer‘

Status of the Ugric etymology

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Loan etymology

None suggested so far

Cognates suggested in earlier research

Khanty: East (V) tö̆γət, South (DN) tüt, North (O) tut 'fire' < ? Proto-Khanty *tüγət

Mansi: South (TJ) täwə·t, East (KU) tɔ̈̄wt, West (P) tāwt 'fire' < Proto-Mansi *tǟwt

Commentary

As the vowel-relations within Ob-Ugric are not completely regular, it is uncertain whether a Proto-Ugric word can be reconstructed.

Abondolo (1996: 62) assumes that the word is a possible derivative from Proto-Finno-Ugric *tiki-/*tiγi- (in Abondolo's reconstruction: UEW *tekɜ- 'thrust, push'), but this explanation is not convincing as the stems for 'fire' and 'thrust, push' have different vowels in Ob-Ugric.

Conclusion

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References

Abondolo: 1996: 62: PUg derivative from a PFU root

EWUng

Honti 1982: 188, No. 631: Proto-Ob-Ugric

UEW: Proto-Ugric Uralonet