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900s

Hungarian words first recorded in the 10th century

2 Hungarian words whose earliest known written record dates from the 10th century, earliest first. Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.

  1. lesz

    950

    It is inherited from Proto-Uralic *le- (“to be, become, live”), a stem of the Finno-Ugric period, with a Hungarian suffix. ÚESz and Zaicz give as cognates of the stem Komi-Zyrian lo- (“to become…

  2. tesz

    950

    It is inherited from Proto-Uralic *teke- (“to do, make”), a verb stem of the Finno-Ugric period, which Hungarian extended with the frequentative suffix -sz. TESz counts the whole verb as inherited…

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