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Contents
Publisher's preface
1. Foreword
2. Introduction into Sumerian-Hungarian research
3. Is there a Finno-Ugric or Uralic language family?
4. Comparing Hungarian etymologies from standard etymological dictionaries
5. Sumerian and Hungarian
6. Hungarian and the other Finno-Ugric languages
7. Caucasian and Hungarian
8. Bantu and Hungarian
9. Etruscan and Hungarian
10. Tibeto-Burman and Hungarian
11. Munda languages and Hungarian
12. Dravidian languages and Hungarian
13. Chinese and Hungarian
14. Japanese and Hungarian
15. Turkish and Hungarian
16. Austronesian and Hungarian
17. Mayan languages and Hungarian
18. Conclusions
19. Index of the Hungarian and other words
20. Index of the Sumerian words
About the author
Foreword
This "Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian" - for which I propose the abbreviation "EDH" - is based on the assumption that the Hungarian (Magyar) language is the direct successor of Sumerian. With this assumption - for which the present author is convinced that there is enough evidence (cf. Chapters 2 and 3) -, EDH strongly competes with and contradicts the traditional Hungarian etymological dictionaries, that are based on the assumption that Hungarian belongs to the Finno-Ugric (FU) languages.
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Obviously, each 10 or 20 years, there was a need for a new (and expensive) multi-volumes etymological dictionary of Hungarian, that is very singular, since it happened in no other known language. Furthermore, if one compares the "crucial words" - alleged borrowings from Slavonic or Turkic and words of "unknown" or "doubtful origin" -, one will find, as a rule, in each of the fore-mentioned dictionaries quite different etymologies.
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The author hopes that EDH will be able to establish itself as a reference work for all the peoples who have always adhered to the Sumerian-Hungarian theory or do not believe anymore in FU and Uralic linguistics. If EDH will cause some adherents of FU/Uralic linguistics to convert to Sumerian- Hungarian linguistics, then it has reached more than its author ever could hope.
Alfréd Tóth