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I had a hard time parsing what this actually means in terms of which words are actually connected. I speak Hungarian, which is a Uralic language supposed to hav
by yosito 5y ago
I had a hard time parsing what this actually means in terms of which words are actually connected. I speak Hungarian, which is a Uralic language supposed to have split from Finnish roughly 3000 years ago. I've seen a few instances in a dictionary where the common roots between the two are connected, though it rarely seems connected from casual observation. People often think there are some shared roots between Hungarian and Turkish, due to more recent occupation of Hungary by the Turks, which led to many Turkish loan words, but the connection is mostly superficial.
Hungarian also has a few loan words from Latin mostly from the last couple Hundred years, but I'd be fascinated to learn about any connections between Hungarian and Latin via some shared ancestral roots.