At 5:53:15 PM on Tuesday, May 13, 2003, Miguel Carrasquer
wrote:
> Unfortunately, there's no Magyar etymological dictionary
> online. It would be nice to know the etymology, as <gond>
> with initial g- can hardly be a native (FU) word.
<
http://www2.4dcomm.com/millenia/UAETY.html> leaves much to
be desired, to put it mildly, but I see no reason to doubt
the compiler's statement that according to _Magyar értelmezô
kéziszótár_ (which he translates 'Hungarian Explanatory
Concise Dictionary') the word is of unknown origin. (I
assume that <ô> is <o"> as opposed to <ö>.) Then again, I
have no idea how up-to-date the information is.
Brian