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The folk-name Ungurus

Articles

• Adamovic, Milan

The author examines the ethnonym Üngürüs, which the Turks used inthe 14th to 16th centuries when referring to the Hungarians. Basing himselfon Turkish and European sources, he concludes that the name was not pronouncedas * Ungurus, as assumed previously, but as Üngürüs. Furthermore,the author sets forth that Turkish Üngürüs was taken ovei from Greek Ούγγρος“Hungarian” and disproves the earlier derivation from Latin Hungarus.Searching for the etymon of Ούγγρος, the author notes the phonic agreementbetween pi. Ούγγροι and Proto-Slavic Qgri, id.; hence, the latter two hadtheir origin in one and the same Hungarian ethnonym, lost since, carried bythis people when coming into the North Pontic area, and which both Greeksand Old Slavs borrowed.

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Όνομα Ungurus, Hungarus