Hungarian Historical Phonology vad

vad 'wild; wild animal; (arch.) forest'

First attestation/Old Hungarian data

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Important dialectal forms

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Uralic/Ugric/Pre-Hungarian reconstruction

UEW: PUg *wamtV 'forest'

Loan etymology

None suggested

Cognates suggested in earlier research

UEW:

Khanty: East (V) wont 'Wald', South (DN) unt, North (Kaz) wǫnt 'Urwald, Wald' < Proto-Khanty ? *want

Saami: Lule Saami vuouˈtē 'forest' < Proto-Saami *vuovtē Álgu

Commentary

This is considered a Proto-Finno-Ugric etymology in the MSzFE and the UEW, and the same view is repeated by DEWOS and Abondolo (1996: 44) who assumes that Mansi LM, N ūnt 'forest' could be a cognate instead of borrowing as assumed by most sources.

The Finno-Ugric etymology cannot be correct as such, as the assumed Saami cognate is a Germanic loan (Aikio 2009: 267). Hungarian and Khanty cognates correspond to each other regularly, however, so a Proto-Ugric word can be reconstructed. The Khanty dialects point to Proto-Khanty *a that can reflect PU *a or *o in -i-stems (Zhivlov 2014: 124), and Hungarian a can be explained similarly.

Conclusion

Based on the Hungarian and Khanty cognates, a Proto-Ugric word can be reconstructed.

References

Abondolo 1996: PFU

Aikio 2009: Saami ← Germanic

DEWOS: PFU

EWUng

MSzFE

UEW s.v. wamta: Proto-Ugric Uralonet