Re: Questions about Hungarian
From: | Rob Haden <magwich78@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, May 4, 2004, 15:53 |
Another question about Magyar:
Why does it preserve the 1sg (definite) ending -m, but not the Uralic
accusative ending -m? One would think that Hungarian would have preserved
the latter if it had the former. Final -n in Hungarian seems to have
disappeared, cf. genitive in -a/e (?). So was the 1sg definite ending
borrowed from some other language, e.g. Turkic, after a supposed loss of
all word-final nasals? Or did Magyar's ancestor(s) not inherit the Common
Uralic accusative ending?
Quick question: From where does the 1sg (indefinite) ending -k derive?
- Rob