Re: [tied] Rom. tsarca - Lit. s^árka

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3"
<alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:

>
> Thanks for this detail. Could you help me with another word:
>
> Hungarian 'vár' /var/ is considered a finno-ugric inherited word

in

> Hungarian meaning: 'fortress'
>
> We have also in Hungarian :
> 'város' /var+osh/ 'city; the city belonging to the fortress;
> the city around the fortress'
>
> What are the corresponding finnic forms for Hun. 'vár'?
> Especially if you can tell us the older forms too.
>
> Thanks and Best Regards,
> Marius

The members who know Hungarian would probably be better respondents,
but if 'város' is not borrowed from Iranian then it is related to
*uras - bull/gardian of heard.

Finnish has 'uros' bull, strong man, male human or animal, also
'ukko' old man
'Ukko' original god of thunder

Peter P