Re: Magyar uveg

From: Przemysław Ziobrowski
Message: 57883
Date: 2008-04-23

alexandru_mg3 ta nugatu-r:

> Osset. avg "glass" - Hung. üveg "glass";
>
> Seems that the correspondances are indicated by Abaev in the Ossetic
> Etymological Dictionary.

You forgot to mention that Abaev gives *two* Hungarian forms: _üveg_ and
_éveg_. The latter is used, AFAIK, by Székely Hungarians (Transylvania).

I don't see any problems with deriving _éveg_ [e:vEg_0] (?) from something
like *_a:b(a)g_ ~ *_a:ß(a)g_ << Iranian *_a:paka_. Cf. Ossetic _marg_
'poison' : Hungarian _méreg_ 'ts.', both ultimately from Iranian
_mar(a)ka_ 'death'.


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Przemysław Ziobrowski