Hungarian words first recorded in the 11th century

The origin is disputed. ÚESz and Zaicz put a Turkic explanation first: the word would be borrowed from Bulgar *urï (“lord, gentleman”), borrowed before the Hungarian conquest. They connect it with…

Its origin is uncertain; it may be inherited from Proto-Uralic *nᴕńćɜ (“strong, hard”), a word inherited from the Finno-Ugric period. The proposed cognates are all in Komi: Komi-Zyrian naʒ́…

It is inherited from Proto-Uralic *wuďe (“new”), a word inherited from the Finno-Ugric period. Its cognates are Komi-Zyrian vi̮ľ, Udmurt vi̮ľ, Eastern Mari u, Erzya od, Moksha od, Finnish uusi…

It is probably formed from a Finno-Ugric stem, inherited from Proto-Uralic *appe (“father-in-law”), with a Hungarian suffix. Its cognates mean “father-in-law”: Mansi up, Khanty up, Eastern Mari…

Its origin is unknown. Of the variants, hel is probably the older. The ⟨h⟩ of the old derivatives helyhez and helyhet “to place” is a verbal suffix, as in bűnhődik and vénhedik. TESz rejects both a…

It is a variant of leány, which is probably a compound formed in the early Hungarian period. Its first part is inherited from Proto-Ugric *lᴕjɜ (“small, young; or weak, feeble”), inherited from the…

It is inherited from Proto-Uralic *mene- (“to go”), one of the words Hungarian inherited from the Uralic period. The verb survives in nearly every branch of the family: Mansi miń-, Khanty měn-…

Its origin is uncertain: TESz, EWUng, ÚESz and Zaicz consider it perhaps inherited from Proto-Uralic *wiŋe (“end”), a word of the Finno-Ugric period. The comparison rests on Finnish viime (“last…

It is borrowed from Bulgar *kiči (“small”), one of the Turkic words Hungarian borrowed before the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin. Róna-Tas and Berta give the West Old Turkic word as…