Hungarian Historical Phonology tehén

tehén 'cow'

First attestation/Old Hungarian data

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Important dialectal forms

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Uralic/Pre-Hungarian reconstruction

? *täjVnV

WOT: Ancient Hungarian *täyinə

Cognates suggested in earlier research

None

Loan etymology

← IIr *dhaHinu-/Ir *daHinu- 'cow'

Commentary

The loan etymology is unproblematic. The loan has to be quite early, as the disyllabic Hungarian word points to a donor that was close to Proto-Iranian. Also the voiceless t is typical of early loans.

WOT assumes a loan from Alanic *däyin, but it remains unclear why this word should be borrowed from Alanic in particular.

Conclusion

A convincing Indo-Iranian loanword.

References

Kümmel 2020: 253: ← IIr

WOT: 1336: ← Al *däyin