Hungarian Historical Phonology vézna

vézna 'schmächtig, spindeldürr, spindeldünn, dünn, dürr’, dial. ‘sovány, cingár; mager, hager'

First attestation/Old Hungarian data

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Important dialectal forms

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Uralic/Ugric/Pre-Hungarian reconstruction

(Obsolete:)

UEW: PUg *wäńćɜ ~ *wäćɜ 'thin narrow; dünn, schmal'

Status of the Ugric etymology

Implausible

Loan etymology

None suggested

Cognates suggested in earlier research

MSzFE, UEW:

Khanty: East (V) wäńt̀ ‘schmal, dünn’, North (Kaz) waś ‘schmal, dünn’, South (DN) wȧt̀ ‘schmal, dünn’ < Proto-Khanty *wǟńć-

Mansi: East (K) wiś, West (P) iś, South (TJ) ǖ͔š́ ‘klein’ < ? Proto-Mansi *wić

Commentary

The Ugric etymology is irregular, as Hungarian z clearly cannot reflect the cluster *ńć that has to be reconstructed to account for the Ob-Ugric words. UEW considers the etymology uncertain and it is not even mentioned by MSzFE. EWUng considers the Ugric etymology improbable. The Ob-Ugric words are regular cognates with each other (Honti 1982).

Conclusion

The Ugric etymology should be rejected. No competing etymologies for Hungarian vézna are known.

References

EWUng: 1631, s.v. vézna: Probably not Proto-Ugric

UEW: ? Proto-Ugric Uralonet