Hungary’s lexical stock is indeed an unusual mixture of its Uralic inheritance, West Old Turkic loans, early Slavic loans, and Ottoman-era Turkish loans. At the

Hungary’s lexical stock is indeed an unusual mixture of its Uralic inheritance, West Old Turkic loans, early Slavic loans, and Ottoman-era Turkish loans. At the same time, so much of the modern Hungarian language is the result of intellectuals creating calques on German terminology during the 19th-century language reform. (To the point that already knowing German will massively help learners to memorize Hungarian verbs.) This represented a big rupture in the language, and it is part of why pre-19th-century Hungarian looks so different.