Introduction

It was only recently, after having finished my work on EDH-1, EDH-2, EDH-3 and EDH-4 (Tóth 2007), that I could get from Europe the very seldom booklet about Magyar-Mongolian comparison by Szentkatolnai (1877) which is completely unavailable in the United States. In the Mongolian examples in chapter 2, I will use the same orthography as Szentkatolnai (including "cz" for today Hungarian's "c") did. Two additions of his etymologies are mine ("add. Tóth"), taken from Vietze (1981), because the author obviously forgot them.

With Mongolian closely related is the question of the language of the Avars, perhaps also of the Huns, Scythians, Medes, Parthians and other people, the origin of the Székely's and generally the questions if the languages of these peoples are also of Sumerian origin and if there is thus a continuity of Hungarian presence in the Carpathian basin (cf. f. ex. Bobula 1966, spec. pp. 43ss.). We restrict ourselves in the present study first to the proof that Mongolian is very closely related to Hungarian and that both languages go back to Sumerian and second to show that Avaric was really - as already postulated by Pray (1774) and von Klaproth (1831) - Mongolian or perhaps better Proto-Mongolian.

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Why did the Mongolians attack Hungary in the 13th century? Was it only because they were a people of warriors or is there a connection with the many attacks that the Turks did a few centuries later? The Mongolians conquered parts of China, the empires of the Choresmians, Tanguts, the biggest part of Russia and other parts of Eastern Europe, in 1241 they reached Silesia and one year after even the Adria. The Turks, after having conquered the Hungarians 1526 in Mohács, even went until Vienna (cf. Weiers 2004). A short comparison between the Mongols and the Turks shows that they obviously tried to regain lands that their forefathers once possessed. This is clear from their mythologies in which they believed, since mythology played the role that history would play after. And the Carpathian basin belonged to the territory both of the Mongols and of the Turks because Mongols, Turks and Hungarians all originate from the Sumerians - as my extensive etymological lists in EDH-1 to EDH-4 as well as the work done by my "ancestors" clearly prove. In the following chapter, I will show the amazingly high number of shared cognates between Sumerian, Hungarian and Mongolian and in the subsequent chapter the common Sumerian-Hungarian-Avaric and Sumerian-Hungarian-Hunnic origin of the few words that we know from the Avars and the Huns.