"And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech."
~ Genesis 11:1

"The whole world speaks Magyar, yet it does not know."
~ Dénes Kiss (1936-2013) Hungarina poet, linguist

The Magyar language is the ancestral and primordial language of the Carpathian Basin, it has developed locally for tens of thousands of years. There are many layers to it by which millions of words can be created. In order to understand how Hungarian works, one has to understand one elementary notion: WORD EQUALS IMAGE.

Words are based on root words, each root word gives a picture, with conjunction of suffixes the roots shift in different shades of the notions they mean. Sometimes suffixes are used as prefixes. It is philosophy and a child's game at the same time. Hungarian thusly is an organic language, unlike the Indoeuropean languages that are unorganic and linear. The language gives the mindset, the ways of expression. This is why the western world has a linear (left brain) mentality and Hungarians have a holistic mentality (right brain). Unfortunately the western thinking is very poor at associating elements of on organic structure. This gives the impossibility to understand the functioning of the world we live in. The end result is the disastrous civilization we live in. From the Hungarian point of view, one may peek into other languages and interpret the meanings of words even more accurate that in the specific language it self. The organic mindset may interpret linearity, but linearity can not interpret organic model. (Varga Csaba - The English Language from the Hungarian View) It wasn’t all the time this way, Europe has lost its organic cultures and languages throughout the centuries of turmoil caused by the Roman Empire and the inquisition that peaked in the so called Renaissance that latinized, slavicized and germanized the continent. Turning back to the organic natural mindset is the only way to get out of the vicious circle of the artificiality of the civilization.

A long time ago Europe had the same language, this is why we may find so many similarities. With the process of degradation there has been a constant need of preserving as much as possible from the old structure, the source has been the Carpathian Basin and the Hungarian language. Latin, German or Slavic are just degraded, linear institutionalized languages of the old broken off branches that ones related them to the core. This in purposely omitted from the official teaching because people might realize the trickery that has been going on along the centuries. How easier it would be to learn European languages if the bases would be the similarities rather that building walls around the and compartmentalizing them into Latin, Slavic, German that seemingly have nothing to to with one another. Of course than some have to wake up that they have as a mother tongue a artificial language. The same goes for history.

The wrong conception is that a specific nations speaks on a specific tongue. In reality LANGUAGE ≠ NATION. The best examples are Americans, who speak English but are not English, as a matter of fact English it self is a mixture of Celtic, German and Latin. We may find this pattern throughout the continent. So called Slavic nations like Poles are Sarmatians, Bulgars are Huns (sometimes referred to as turkic huns), or Bosnians being Pechengs. Most of the Csangó nation (a branch the of Magyars) living in Moldova have lost their own tongue of Magyar dialect due to the forced latinization.

Some examples on how the three main branches of European official tongues have a common root.
English: ONE, Slavic: ODIN (spelled: adjin), German: EIN, Italian: UNO, Magyar: EGY (spelled: edj).
English: TWO, Slavic: DWA, German: ZWEI, French: DEUX (spelled: dö), Italian: DUE. Magyar: (KET)TŐ.
English: THREE, Slavic: TRI, German: DREI, Italian: TRE, Magyar: HAROM.

Lets stop for a moment, one may say that the Magyar for three does not resemble with the others at all. This is why one has to come acquainted with the sound groups and the relations that are between them. There is a sound shift between H and T. Mountie Hargita in antiquity was called by Greeks Targitaos (HAR-TAR). HAR means simply HIGH (R→Y). Think of the word tower, in Hungarian this is “torony”.

Further: English: garden, Slavic: ogrod, German: garten, French: jardin, Magyar: kert.
English: me, Slavic: mne, German: mich, French: moi, Magyar: mü (szekler dialect).
English: brother, Slavic: brat, German: bruder, Italian: fratello, Magyar: barát (literally a good friend, think of brother in arms or blood brother).
English: mom, Slavic: mama, German: mama, Italian: mamma, Magyar: mama, but also English: dad sometimes as pa, Slavic: papa, German: papa, Italian: papa, Magyar: papa being literally the same sometimes spelled slightly differently.

Now, some examples on Hungarian and how many similarities may be found in English. We may even state that: Hungarian is the mother tongue of English. Englishman should not feel unease, but uplifted as a better and richer language may map down the world more precisely then one with lesser possibilities.

Lets take words such as bat (as in cricket or baseball bat), Hungarian “bot”. But also beat, to beat, that comes from using a bat for beating. Hungarian várta – fort, vár – wait, zok(ni) – sock, haj – hair, leng – fling, tüske – tusk, csere(sznye) – cherry, vers – verse, pillér – pillar, lárma – alarm, riad(at) – riot, szörp – sirup.

Then there are words that have one of their sounds missing:
~ run – (sur)ran (spelled: shoo-rhun), the root is sur, sür as in “sürget” to hasten. The root reversed is "rüs", English rush, on the other hand sürget=urgent. Other examples for root reversing: durva – rude, suhong – hushing, moraj-rumor.
~ gurul – roll, the root here is gur (GR) as in gyro (gyroscope), or garden (Hungarian kert).
~ beszel – say, to talk, to speak. L sound softens into Y as being part of the same sound group (R,L,Y or J depending on spelling).

Interpreting English words from Hungarian is easy, words like mouth mean moving, movement, the root is MO. The same as in motor, Hungarian mocor(gó)(motsor), something that movies about.

~ Cape or cap (like Cape Town), Hungarian kopja, kupa (German kopf, Italian capo, meaning also a leader, the head of something). The root is KU meaning something that stands out, “kúp” means cone.
~ Form – to form, forming, formatting. Comes from root FOR, meaning to turn, turning, to shape by a turning movement. In Latin this is VER, like version, as in conversion, conversation meaning the same thing, turning.

Some more examples (the meanings may not always coincide, one has to think of the image that the notion expressed carries): ad – (to) add, baba – baby, babás – babysh, bödön – bidon, bök – poke, deszka – desk, est – west, fall – wall, föld – field, friss – fresh, gida – kid, gyagya – gaga, halm – holm, ház – house, horda – horde, kilincs – clench, közel – close (sound jumping) , kurta – short, lankadt – languid, laza – loose, lencse – lense, nyak – nek, ódon – olden, pár – pair, pont – point, pór – poor, rozsd(a) – rust, rög – rock, szablya – saber, szappan – soap, tánc – dance, te – thee, torony – tower, törzs – torso, tüske – tusk, zeng – song.

Spreading of metallurgy from John Dayton - „Minerals, Metals, Glazing and Man”



"The Magyar language stands afar off and alone. The study of other tongues will be found of exceedingly little use towards its right understanding. It is moulded in a form essentially its own, and its construction and composition may be safely referred to an epoch when most of the living tongues of Europe either had no existence, or no influence on the Hungarian region."

~ Sir John Bowring on the Magyar language


“We (Hungarians) are like living dinosaurs” 

~Csaba Varga

HUNGARIAN IS THE ART OF SPEECH

According to poet and linguist Kiss Dénes Hungarian language is the best way to peak into the past. It has its own consciousness and personality, moreover, it has memory. The words them selves prove that in this language there is ancient knowledge deeply hidden, this knowledge is astronomical, spatial and temporal.

Hungarian is an agglutinative language. An agglutinative language works in a way as any organic structure, putting small elements next to one another until the desired form (a nation in the case of language) is achieved. The small elements, called roots, suffixes or prefixes have their own meanings and by their combination one may create, seemingly, a countless amount of words. The great thing about Hungarian is that the elements need not to be predefined, they are interchangeable until the notion desired is understood. This is exactly the reason why it is so hard for westerners or to those without an organic (agglutinative) language to comprehend it. If this wasn't enough, Hungarian has so many words that can not be counted all at once. The process of creation of words is continuous, the dictionaries or the etymological dictionary is the mere skeleton of the whole language. It is around 1.5-2 million words that are used in average by the Hungarian language. If it's needed, 2 million more may be created, or just as many needed. This is the essence of an organic structure. Such is Nature and the whole of Universe.

According to indiologist Aradi Éva, Hungarian goes far back before the times of civilization, when there were no social structures, even far back before matriarchality or patrialchality even arose. As it would be the remnant of the times of Eden or at least of a long past golden age of human kind. One of the examples that she brings up is the lack of gender (this being characteristic to the agglutinative languages). Having genders in a languages shows the marks of the predefined social structure of the city, where the spiritual values are lost or of less important then the rank in the society. This wouldn't be such a big trouble on its own, the trouble is when objects get their own genders! There are languages where the desk is of feminine gender! Or one kind of animal is one gender, while other kind of animal other gender. If this is not enough a third kind may be neutral, meaning it is the combination of the two gender's (feminine and masculine) singular and plural. Such languages give a very odd and narrow perception of the world we live in.



COMPLEMENTARITY THROUGH DIVERSITY

The basic elements of Hungarian are mathematics, logic and imaginary. The elements (roots, suffixes, prefixes) express images, that in a precise mathematical logic are combined to express that one desires. In this case both of the brain's hemispheres are used. Left for mathematical logic, right for imaginary. This inner ancient logic is that confuses the most the western mind, that has been accustomed to copy rather then to create. To express a simple affirmation or negation, the Hungarian mind goes through an intricate process of logic, this is almost impossible to translate. Similar simpler examples may be found, like:

nothing – no(+)thing, something – some(+)thing, anything – any(+)thing. But words like “nincstelen” (have-not, literally: without there is not), “egyetlen” (only, singular, literally: "onelessness"), “közvetlen” (nearest, immediate, proximate, literally: without anything put in between) just can not be translated. This way of logic allows the association of even the furthest elements. (Varga Csaba - The English Language from the Hungarian View, Varga Csaba - The Origin of the Itellect, The agglutinative language)

In Hungarian words the meanings are carried by the vowels, while the constant root image by the consonants. With the alteration of the vowel, different shades may be obtained of the same image, notion. This process may be applied also on the consonants. Sounds complicated and tricky enough? Just think of an organic structure and how it is built. All humans are human, may resemble, but no one is exactly the same.

Some particular examples of agglutinated expressions:

Megjárni – (megjártam-first person, singular) – to get the worse of a bargain or situation. The root is the words “jár”, to walk. This would literally translate as “I walked it”, more like for an Englishman, to walk into something bad. Except this logic of Hungarian expresses non other then simply walking on one's feet and the hardness it causes for one that is part of a horse riding(!) culture. Riding is the easiest way to travel, while walking is so demanding in comparison. Its is like saying: “I had to walk all the way!”

Megúszni – (megúsztam-first person, singular) – to get away from something or to get out of a troublesome situation. This is a little bit trickier. The root is “úsz”, meaning, to swim! These expressions are the ones that made linguists such as Kiss Dénes say that Hungarian has memory. In his opinion this has to go back to times of the Great Flood, vast areas of the land was covered with water. It is a fact that the Carpathian Basin had a sea called the Pannonian Sea. This expression captures the harsh imagery of swimming when that had to be part of daily life as afterward walking.

Meglovasodott – to become “enhorsened”. This example shows how languages like English are as scattered puzzle pieces and the observer can only look at one section at a time, while Hungarian sees the whole picture all the time. The root is “ló” meaning horse, but the word found in the example that serves as the core of the expression is “lovas”, meaning a horse rider. And this is where English splits up and Hungarian keeps the whole picture all together. “Lovas” truly means “horser”, one that uses a horse to ride, instead of just saying rider. The root of the rider is to ride, obviously it way be traced back to times of horse riding, but now days one may ride the bus or the cab, even the roller coaster. So it has to be specified what kind of ride all is about. Hungarian has kept the original imagery, and it just simply states: horser (like manage – manager, sail – sailer, fight – fighter). So what could it mean? It means something got stolen! To become unreachable as if took off on a horse.

Reference:


Csaba Vagra

Csaba Varga - Our words from the past
Csaba Varga - The Nostratic Language
Csaba Varga - The Organically Built Language
Csaba Varga - Multiplying Words in Hungarian
Csaba Varga - An Old Hungarian Dialect Found On the British Islands


Tomory Zsuzsa

Tomory Zsuzsa - Foreigners About Magyar Language
Tomory Zsuzsa - Organic Magyar Linguistics
Tomory Zsuzsa - Organic Linguistics 01
Tomory Zsuzsa - Organic Linguistics 02
Tomory Zsuzsa - Hussar
Tomory Zsuzsa - Sixteen Components of Magyar Language
Tomory Zsuzsa - The Magyar Rovas
Tomory Zsuzsa - Yarmouth Runic Stone

Sándor Timaru-Kast

Sándor Timaru-Kast - Celts and Magyars 01
Sándor Timaru-Kast - Celts and Magyars 02
Sándor Timaru-Kast - Celts and Magyars 03

Alfréd Tóth  – General and Comparative Linguistics

Alfréd Tóth – Hunnic-Hungarian Etymological Word List
Alfréd Tóth – Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian
Alfréd Tóth – Hungaro-Raetica I
Alfréd Tóth – Hungaro-Raetica II
Alfréd Tóth – Is the Turanian language family a phantom?
Alfréd Tóth – Are all agglutinative languages related to one another
Alfréd Tóth – Etruscans Huns Hungarians
Alfréd Tóth – Hungarian and Eskimo-Aleut
Alfréd Tóth – Hungarian, Sumerian and Penutian
Alfréd Tóth – Hungarian-Mesopotamian Dictionary
Alfréd Tóth – RAETIC
Alfréd Tóth – Sumerian, Hungarian and Mongolian (including Avaric)
Alfréd Tóth – Sumerian, Proto- Uralic, Proto-Finno-Ugrian and Hungarian
Alfréd Tóth – The common Mesopotamian substrate of Hungarian and Basque
Alfréd Tóth – Hungarian-Sumerian-Egyptian & Hungarian-Sumerian-Hebrew