Hungarian words first recorded in the 13th century

It is from Hungarian elő (“front”) + -ső (“adjective suffix”), formed from the stem variant ⟨el-⟩ of the base with the suffix, as alsó, belső and felső are formed. The obsolete előső was made from…

It is inherited from Proto-Uralic *kaďa- (“to leave; to remain”), one of the words Hungarian inherited from the Uralic period. Its cognates include Mansi kōľ- “to leave”, Khanty kăj- “to leave…

It is a Slavic loanword. Compare Serbo-Croatian penez (“coin, (plural) money”) and pinez in dialects, Slovak peniaz (“coin; money”) and the old Russian пе́нязь (pénjazʹ, “coin, small coin”). TESz…

It probably split off at a very early stage, in Proto-Hungarian or perhaps already in the Ugric period, from visz “to carry”. That verb is inherited from Proto-Uralic *wike- (“to take, grasp; to…

It is inherited from Proto-Ugric *sawɜ (“word, speech”), one of the words Hungarian inherited from the Ugric period. Its cognates are in the Ob-Ugric languages: Mansi såw (“word; sound, voice”), sow…

Its origin is unknown. The early records, the way it is inflected (with the stem ⟨hi-⟩ beside ⟨hisz-⟩) and its large family of derivatives suggest that it may be a word inherited from the…

It is inherited from Proto-Uralic *čukkɜ (“dense, thick”) (or *čokkɜ), one of the words Hungarian inherited from the Finno-Ugric period. The related words mean “many” in Mansi and “dense” elsewhere…

It is inherited from Proto-Uralic *käktä (“two”), from the Finno-Ugric or perhaps the Uralic period; TESz, ÚESz and the UEW give it as ⟨*kakta ~ *käktä⟩. Its cognates are Mansi kiť, Khanty kät…

It is probably inherited from Proto-Uralic *ne (“not”), one of the words Hungarian inherited from the Finno-Ugric period, and shares its origin with the negative nem. Its cognates survive only…

It is from Hungarian sem (“not even”) + ha (“when”), a compound of the negative and of the adverb and conjunction in its old sense “when”, which grew together in the sentence. Semmi and senki were…

It is borrowed from Serbo-Croatian boj (“fight; duel”), a South Slavic borrowing; Old Croatian (Chakavian) had the sense “duel”. The Slavic word, Proto-Slavic *bojь, is a derivative of *biti (“to…

It is of uncertain origin, perhaps a derivative of a stem that is not found on its own. The stem may go back to the Ugric period and be the same as that of akad and akaszt; the ending is probably…

It is probably inherited from Proto-Uralic *ańa (“wife of an older male relative; mother?”), a Uralic stem with a Hungarian ending. TESz reconstructs the base with a plain /n/ and allows the…

Its origin is disputed. ÚESz, EWUng and Zaicz take it for a compound formed in Hungarian whose first part is probably the near demonstrative e (“this”) (see ez). Its second part is most likely…

It is formed from Hungarian ér + -z: the verb ér “to touch, to reach” with a frequentative suffix. It rests on the sense “to touch something” of the base, like the derivatives érdekel, érint and…

1. The verb “to fear” is inherited from Proto-Uralic *pele- (“to fear”), one of the words Hungarian inherited from the Uralic period. Its relatives mean “to fear” across the family: Mansi piľ-…

It is probably a Hungarian derivative, from Hungarian jog + -z. TESz, which calls the origin uncertain, derives it from ⟨*ig⟩, a supposed variant of the old word ⟨jog⟩ ~ ⟨jóg⟩ “good; better; right…

It developed within Hungarian from ⟨i⟩, the original variant of the demonstrative e (the base of ez), but how it was formed is disputed. The pronoun stem goes back to the Uralic demonstrative…

It arose by the splitting of one word into two: it is a variant of the question word miért “why?” that separated from it in form and meaning. The question word is from Hungarian mi (“what”) + -ért…