(This post is not written as an article, but just notes about my proposal of affinity between the following Hungarian [and thereby Uralic] and Hellenic terms.)
teljes (also **tele/teli** for ‘full’):
entire, full, total
complete
τελήεις/telḗeis:
(of sacrificial victims) complete, perfect, entire, without blemish
(of animals and humans) full-grown, adult
Related to, and largely synonymous with…
τέλειος:
having reached its end, finished
(of victims) complete, perfect, entire, without blemish
(of animals and humans) full-grown, adult
(of persons) absolute, complete, accomplished, perfect
(of things)
(of prayers, vows, etc.) fulfilled, accomplished
(of numbers) full, complete
(in arithmetic) those numbers which are equal to the sum of their divisors
the third bowl offered to Zeus
(of the gods) perfect, omnipotent, infinite
last
(neuter substantive) a royal banquet
(feminine substantive) a full stop, period
(adverb) at last
completely, absolutely
The Hungarian is ultimately from Proto-Uralic *täwde, with cognates like Nganasan ťerə, Inari Sami tievâs, Finnisη täydellinen (‘perfect’, which I compare with reduplicated τετελεσμένος/tetelesmenos, ‘that which has been perfected’); while the Greek is from PIE *kʷel-. Out of all IE descendants, only Greek presents *kʷ>t. Furthermore, the semantic value of “full, complete” in Greek Τελήεις/Τέλειος does not appear present in IE cognate terms (from what is available on Wikipedia) descended from *kʷel-, itself meaning ‘to move/turn’. This is also the source of *kʷékʷlos > κῠ́κλος/kúklos , which I believe is related to Proto-Uralic *kuŋe, with the listed descendants:
Samoyedic: *kïj
Kamassian: ки (ki)
Ugric:
Hungarian: hó, hold
Mordvinic:
Erzya: ков (kov)
Finnic: *kuu
In Hungarian, telihold is the full moon. I believe the Greek equivalent would be τέλειε κύκλε (or perhaps τελήεν κύκλε). If Τele/Teli=Τελή/Τέλει- are related, Hungarian is phonologically closer to the Greek term than any other IE or Uralic language (with Khanty [also Ugric] tel a close second).
This is another example of a term that does not exist “as-is” in PIE, but rather has developed into Hellenic and the Uralic languages with a higher phonological and exclusive semantic affinity.
