ON THE TURKIC ORIGIN OF HUNGARIAN IGEN 'YES'

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" ON THE TURKIC ORIGIN OF HUNGARIAN IGEN 'YES' "
Lars Johanson

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	811532
Doc. No	:	LA99206
Main Entry	:	Lars Johanson
Title & Author	:	ON THE TURKIC ORIGIN OF HUNGARIAN IGEN 'YES' [Article]\ Lars Johanson
Title of Periodical	:	Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
Date	:	2004
Volume/ Issue Number	:	57-1
Page No	:	93--104
Abstract	:	The present paper discusses the origin of the Hungarian particle igen 'yes', for which no convincing etymology has been presented so far. It is suggested that it is a selective copy of Turkic egen ~ igen (< erken), an indirective and/or emphatic rhetorical particle ('evidently', 'obviously', 'apparently', 'as it appears', 'it turns out that', 'indeed'), derived from er- 'to be' and used as part of the predicate core and/or as a postpredicate element to convey consenting or admitting answers.