Talk:fiú

Hi, it cannot be that hungarian Fiù come from latin Filius?? look strange that come from finnish poika!

Hungarian had a regular shift of consonants from p > f, and that takes us a bit along the way already, to something like *fojka. Hungarian has displayed loss of non-initial consonants in many other cases; compare Finnish maksa to the Hungarian cognate which is simply máj. We can now assume something like *foj, althought something may had happened to the vowel at this point too. We're already closing in on it.

Now, Romania and Hungary are neighbouring countries, and there are even Hungarian speakers in Transylvania of Romania. The word for son in Romanian is fiu. It is not unreasonable to assume that Hungarian's already very similar word for the same thing would have been influenced phonetically by the Romanian word. It would thus have a connection to Latin filius, from which the Romanian word is descended, indeed, but at the same time be a native, Uralic word as well. Skomakar'n (talk) 01:32, 15 May 2012 (UTC)