Hungarian Historical Phonology tegez

Sanatista

tegëz 'quiver'

First attestation/Old Hungarian data

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Important dialectal forms

tëgëz (UEW)

Uralic/Ugric/Pre-Hungarian reconstruction

(Disputed:)

UEW: PUg *täŋɜ-tɜ 'quiver (on belt); Pfeilköcher am Riemen'

Status of the Ugric etymology

Improbable (phonologically irregular)

Loan etymology

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Cognates suggested in earlier research

Khanty: V tüγət, DN, O tiwət < ? PKh *tīγət

Mansi: KU tǟwət, LM täut, So tawt < ? PMs *täwət

Proto-Ob-Ugric:  ?

Commentary

The word-internal consonants (Hu g < ? *ŋk and Ob-Ugric *γ < ?) show an irregular correspondence, and the word cannot be regularly reconstructed to Proto-Ugric (cf. other equestrian vocabulary).

Conclusion

The Ugric etymology is irregular. Possible substrate loans.

References

EWUng

Kálmán 1988

UEW: Proto-Ugric Uralonet