From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 51241
Date: 2008-01-14
----- Original Message -----From: tolgs001Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 12:43 AMSubject: [Courrier indésirable] [tied] Re: IE & Uralic>A loanword like mantya should be **mez- not magy-ar
>Hungarian gy usually stems from dzh as in job=dzhob
>as shown by numerous Turcic loanwords.
>You need to start with something like *mandza or *mandzha
>Arnaud
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Persian chroniclers of the 10th c. called them Majghars.=======ArnaudThem : who ?You mean Hungarians were in Persia in 10th century ?What phonetics <majghar> stand for ?=====================
Two centuries later, king Be´la's anonymous notary P.
wrote "mogerii":(Chronicon Anonymi Bele Regis Notarii, Gesta Hungarum. Incipit
prologus in gesta hungarum)
George
===========ArnaudCan't you see that -g- in moger is the best match for -dzh- in latin script ?Cf. italian, french, etc.===============