Old and new etymologies
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2023.2.205Keywords:
etymology, semantics, historical dialectology, codices, Ancient Hungarian, Old HungarianAbstract
In this paper I have added further explanations to three of my earlier etymological ideas and provided data for the history of two additional words. To the etymology of Hungarian bagoly ’owl’ a foreign language pattern may be a parallel, both based on onomatopoeia. Old toponyms based on orom, oromzat and orozat (all roughly: ‘gable, embattlement, frontispiece’), derived from the word orr ‘nose’, suggest that they are not synonymous in all variants. Behind the Ancient Hungarian dignitary name gyula, there may be a phenomenon that can be considered universal: (military or religious) power was experienced both by the holder and by other people in the form of heat and light. Although búsz ‘mist, steam, cloudy sky’ and buz ‘intense emotion’ are two words of similar form and meaning, and therefore may have been confused in the minds of speakers, I consider them to be two separate words because of their meanings provided in old codices.
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