The Name of Hungarian People «hungar» in the Mirror of Geographical Names
Czeglédi Katalin
The original names of Finno-Ugrian people are given mostly by
fields or rivers where these people lived.
(Hunfalvy
1876:389)
This statement is neither refuted nor confirmed by linguists yet.
1. One of the Hungarian ethnonyms is hungar, and the country is also named Hungary, Ungarn, Hongrie, Vengrija (KISS, FNESz).
The ethnonym hungar has not got a clear etymology. According to sources the name hungar can be related to the names: ogur, ogurda, ungri, hunugur, ugri, nukurda, nukarda, hujur; Jura, jugra, ugra, Hungaria, Unkurijja.
The first mentions of the ogurs and onogurs occured in the region of Kuban and in the Western regions of mouth of the Volga River. The ogurs and onogurs are the same as the hun, savir, magyar peoples. The territory of Bashkir was named Hungary in the East and South of the Mezen River.
The linguists do not interpret the sources in the same way. We have separated the views:
1.1. The Ugra was home of the hun people and they spoke the same language as magyars (MACARTNEY 1968:272). Hunnivar is a river, not a castle name. The ogor is included in the legends of Vogulish people. The river names are on the top regions of Sosva and Sigva rivers next to Ural, wich are famous as ethnonyms. That two rivers have Syrjan name Jögra and Russian name Vogul (HUNFALVY 1876:389). The names onogur, hunugur, unigur are rather geographical concepts (ZICHY 1923).
The name hungar has a consonant-relations nasal and explosive (-ng-) problem. The relation of consonant (-nk-) had a
denasality in the Syrjan and Hungarian languages, so we understand the form yugra (HAJDU 1952:264-269). Menandros mentioned the ogurs
and onogurs as two different people, but did not say they whether they were different people speaking the same or different languages
(HALASIKUN
1986:71-100).
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