Appendices

What Is Behind Names?

Many strange things were already identified as possible proofs of Mesopotamia and Central Asia as the original homeland of Hungarians.
Historic reports, Hungarian runes results of genetics and culture were analyzed. Coming to the conclusion that all the similarities and identities listed in the different topics would be mere coincidences and no other proofs exists we fail. Survey of names brings new surprises.

Names of the Forefathers

Aparni lived on the southern southeastern shore of the Caspian Sea and can be somehov related to a mysterious nation, whose name clearly resembles Kush of the Old Testament, the father of Sumerians. Also the Khusitic Scythians had a forefather called Kush-Tana, bringing the Biblical person again, also pointing to the shape of Tana of the Hungarian legends. Actual Hungarian family names Kustán, Kustyán or Kustány still remind to him.

Hunting of the two sons of Nimrod is an important element of the Hungarian legends , especially as Bible identifies Nimrod as a Mighty Hunter (Genesis 10:9.). His Sumerian name, or his title better was "nimb-UR-SHAG", meaning "LORD of PANTHERS" that is "Párducok URA" in Hungarian, or "Párduc URASÁG", in line with the name recorded in the Bible, where word "nimra" means "panther" combined with "rad", "to defeat". Thfirst part of the name reminds to the Hebrew word, while the second to the Hungarian. Moreover, Nimrod had to defeat panthers to become "Mighty" hunter: however this title is falsely identified with killing panthers, while defeater of panthers refers more to his ability to domesticate them for using them during future huntings. Really, kings and rulers of Central Asia where Hungarians came from trained panthers to hunting. Skin of the panther was traditionally one of the most precious separate of Hungarian kings, resembling the old fashion Nimrod was portrayed.
Historian Yosef-ben-Gorion ha-kohen, or Yosippon kept, that Nimrod equals to the first Egyptian king Menes, turning into the shape of Mesopotamian Nimrod, while Eneth His wife was the Egyptian goddes Neith originally.

Headgod of old Galatians was called MEN, while KYBELE was their Headgoddess portrayed with many breasts. This pair of gods can be explained in Hungarian as well, once wiht the parallel of Nimrod-MENrot (an other form of the name of Nimrod), while the name KYBELE can be driven back to the word KEBEL (breast) based on the portrayal. Their country was known as Phrygia. They seem to follow Chaldean traditions, as even Assyrians call them "Kaldu", just as Babylonia. These Galatians, Phrygians transferred the Babylonian relóigion to the Greeks and Romans later. This case they can be the ancestors of both Seklers and Etrurians most likely. The fact is taht MEN was exactly the same as Marduk-Merodiak/Ninus/Nimrod, while Kybele equals to Ishtar/Semiramis.

The Scythian legend of origin is three folded, similarly to the Indoeuropean, Sparthian, Dorian or Old Testament reports: Targitaus has three sons called Lipoksai, Arpoksai and Kholaksai. Targitaus is an important ancestor among Huns, Avars and Seklers. The name resembles the Georgian Thargamos and Armenian Togarma, as Arpoksai reminds to Arpakhshad of Habiri. Analysis of the names based on Sumearian language provides astonishing result. The names of the four ancestors can be translated using Sumerian! Let's see them with the help of Sumerian dictionary of Labat:
Their names also indicates the most important virtue of Scythians, that is honesty and love.

Kolaksai was also the head of tribe auhata, those name in Sumerian means "Sprig of the Shining Sun God", "A-U-Had-Da" (Labat: 579, 381, 295, 335). They could be considered to be the ancestors of Avars quite easy, as they were also the "Sprig of Shining Sun", "A-U-Ar" (Labat: 579, 381, 451) Had=Ar.
The tribe of Arpoksai called traspisi deriving from Sumerian "T(e)r-A-Zé-Bi-Zí-(A)" (Labat: 375, 579, 338a 214 84 579, "inhabitant of the wood next to the water".
The tribe of Kolaksai was paralata, the "Bara-La(l)-Ta" (Labat: 280, 481, 211) meaning "people living under king's dependency". This is completely true to them as Kolaksai, the youngest son inherited the throne of Targitaus after his death. Greeks called his land Kolkhis.

Herodotus also reports that the common - family - name of the princes after the king was Skolotus. It's Sumerian equivalent is "Sag-Kul-U4-Tu6" (Labat: 115, 72, 381, 16), "loyal servant of the Enchanting Sun God". Greek equivalent of this nbame is SCYTHA, "Sag-U4-Tu6-A" (Labat: 115, 381, 16, 579), "slave of the Enchanting Sun God". Today's concept to derive Scytha from "Sag-Ud-Da" "white faced" ignoring diphtongue "th" and it's meaning "enchanting". This official theory can be also disproven by the fact that not all Scythians were white skinned indeed. There were "Kushitic", dark skinned Scythians as well. Even Leader Árpád had dark skin, according to Chronicles...


A mysterious nation appears in Mesopotamia in the time of the Hebrew Exodus: kassites (kasu). Their original homeland is still unknown, also their further history is unknown after their move to Mountain Zargos being defeated in Babylon. They have to be considered to be the "Kasdis" most likely and not the Chaldeans of New Babylon. Kassites accidentally spoke a Sumerian kind of langauge, if not the same, and they might be the Sumerians returning to reoccupy their lands being deported by Akkadians many centuries before. Kassites were excellent horse riders, the most special feature of Northern Mesopotamian nations on the land of Subartu/Mitanni, being very close to Sumerians from the most ancient of times.
There can be an alliance established among the Northern and Southern nations of Zargos region. Similar allies seem to be quite common among Sumerian/Sabir and Indoaryan nations. Hurrite and Mede influence can be accepted based on some inevitably Indi names of their rulers like Suriash=Surya, Maruttash=Marut, Inda-Bugash=Indra-Bhaga).  This alliance took the lead over whole Mesopotamia. Mittanite kingdom was preceeded and survived by Kassitic kingdom by 90 years.
Gods of Mitannite treaties are typical Vedic gods: Varun-a, Mitra, Indra and N-satyau mixing with the names of Mitanni rulers and aristocracy being clearly Indic: Barattarna, Saushshatar, Artatama, Shuttarna, Tushratta (Dushratta), Sattvara (Sattiwaza), Varashatta.
At this point the other name "Chaldean" of Kassites and their relation to Sumerians makes to connect our argument to the Hungarian-Hebrew relations possible again. Parallels of the names above can be identified in todays Hungarian, like Suriash = Surya = Sur(j)án(y)(i) , Maruttash = Marut = Marót (an other variant of the name of Nimrod is MEN-MAROT), Varun-a = Várhun, Várkony. Indic word "bharat" has the same meaning in Hungarian, friend (barát) and even in the meaning of monk (barát).

Old Hunnish tribe of Seklers of Carpathians can be correlated with old Tzekelesh. One of their genus is called "kézdi", exactly "Chaldean"/"Kasdi"! One of their most important cities is called Kézdivásárhely in Kovasna county, Roumania. The Roumanian name of the city is "Târgu Secuiesc", meaning "Sekler Marketplace", identifying Seklers with Kasdis/Chaldeans. The speciality of turning Assirian "l" to "s" in Hebrew can be proven in the case of Kászdi/Káldi in Hungarian as well, as well as the Kasi/Kasdi (Kassite/Chaldean): One of the Hun-Hungarian tribes was called Keszi, that is the same as Kézdi most likely, also many tribal or location name became lastname in Hungarian, getting "i" or "y" ending, pointing to the origin. Frequent lastnames as Káldi/Káldy/Káltai/Káltay and some variants of the phrase suggest the location of "Káld" or "Kált", in Hungary that is not existing... except in Ancient past: Káldea (Chaldea). Just as there is no location on the Carpathian Basin called Kézd, that means name Kézdi can point to an old tribe only! It is maybe a coincidence only that Western sources called both ancient Sicilians and Seklers as Siculs.

Names of Hungarian rulers from Arpad House can be driven back to the Sumerian.
Others in a brief list:
These names used by Scythians as well - see above - all have meaning in Sumerian, but analyzing other Hungarian names would lead to similar results.
The question raises again, do Hungarians really have nothing to do with Sumerians and Scythians? Nations those Herodotus himself merges, reporting that "Scythians lived in Mesopotamia far before any other nations"?


Geographical Names

Names of Hungarian locations have surprisse in stor for us. Most of Hungarian related ancient location names are find on Syria-Ugarit-Phoenicia and in the land of Canaan. (Only locations in Canaan will be listed here, with their Hungarian equivalents in parenthesis.)

Name Baal-Biqa can fall under suspicion of being Hungarian in origin, having Baal symbolized witha bull (bika). Coincidence can be closed out in this amount of similarities concentrating in a small location. Even in the Holy Bible can be many (exactly 84) today's Hungarian location name identified!

ABDA (Gyõr m.) = ABDA (1Kir. 4,6)
ÁMON (Pozsony m.) = ÁMON (2Krón. 33,23)
NagyATÁD (Somogy m.) = ATAD (1.Móz. 50, 10)
BANA (Komárom m.) = BAANA (2Sám.4,2)
BÉLA (Szepes m.) = BELA (1.Móz.14:8)
BÜKI (Somogy m.) = BUKKI (1Krón.5,31)
CINfalva (Sopron m.) = CIN (4.Móz.13, 21)
DODO (Torontál m.) = DODO (1Krón.11,12)
ÉDENlak (Zala m.) = ÉDEN (Ezék.28,13)
GÁD (Torontál m.) = GÁD (Józs.13,8)
GIBÁRT (Abaúj-Torna m.) = GIBAR (Ezra.2,20)
HALI (Gyõr m.) = HALI (Józs.19,25)
HÉT (Tömör m.) = HET (1Krón.1,13)
ISA (Maros-Torda m.) = ISA (1Krón.2,18)
JUTA (Somogy m.) = JUTTA (Józs.21,16)
KÁMON (Vas m.) = KÁMON (Bír.10, 5)
MAKÁD (Pest-P-S-K m.) = MAKA (1Kir.4,9)
MIKAlaka (Arad m.) = MIKA (2Krón.34,20)
NÁDÁNtelek (Blm.) = NÁTÁN (1Krón.3,36)
PAROS (Hunyad m.) = PAROS (Ezra.10,25)
PULA (Somogy m.) = PUL (2Kir..15,19)
RINYA (Somogy m.) = RINNA (1Krón.4,20)
SEMESnye (Szolnok-Doboka m.) = SEMES (Józs.15,7)
SUR (Veszprém m.) = SUR (2.Móz.15,22)
SZALUS (Bars m.) = SZALU (4.Móz.25,14)
SZENNA (Ung m.) = SZENAA (Neh.8,38)
SZIN (Abaúj-Torna m.) = SZIN (4.Móz.38,11)
TERESke (Nógrád m.) = TERES (Eszter.2:21)
UZA (Gömör-Kishont m.) = UZA (2Sám.6,4)
ADA (Bács-Bodrog m.) = ADA (1.Móz. 4,19)
ARAD (Esztergom m.) = ARAD (4.Móz.21,1)
BÁLA (Maros-Torda m.) = BALA (Józs.19,12)
BABA (Somogy m.) = BABA (Bír.7,24)
CELLA (Krassó-Szörény m.) = CELA (2Sám.22,12)
DÁNfalva (Csík m.) = DÁN (1.Móz.16,7)
DÓRA (Fehér m.) = DORA (1.Makk.15,11)
ELLA (Arad m.) = ELA (2Sám.23,11)
GÁLosfa (Somogy m.) = GAAL (Bír.9,26)
GURA (Nógrád m.) = GUR (2Kir. 9,27)
HÁMOR (Borsod m.) = HÁMOR (1.Móz. 35,8)
HODI (Pozsony m.) = HOD (1Krón.7,37)
AlsóJÁRA (Torda-Aranyos m.) = JÁRA (1Krón. 9,42)
KÁLLÓ (Nógrád m.) = KALLÓ (Ésa.36,2)
LÉHI (Tömör-Kishont m.) = LEHI (Bír.15,18)
MARA-Borsa (Szatmár m.) = MARA (2.Móz.16,23)
MIKLOT (Bihar m.) = MIKLOT (1Krón. 9,38)
ÓNY (Pozsony m.) = ON (4.Móz.16,1)
PEREC (Vas m.) = PEREC (1.Móz.38,29)
BURA (Heves m.) = PURA (Bír.7,10)
RISZA (Zala m.) = RISZA (4.Móz.33,21)
SIMA (Abaúj-Torna m.) = SIMA (1Krón. 2,3)
MátéSZALKA (Szatmár m.) = SZALKA (5.Móz.3,10)
SZEMlak (Arad m.) = SZEM (1.Móz5,32)
SZERED (Pozsony m.) = SZERED (1.Móz46,14)
SZITNYA (Hont m.) = SZITNA (1.Móz26,21)
TOBaj (Vas m.) = TOB (Bírák.11,3)
SZABADka (Bács-Bodrog m.) = ZABAD (Ezék.10,43)
ÁJ (Abaúj-Torna m.) = ÁJ (Józs.7,2)
ARD (Veszprém m.) = ARD (4.Móz.26,40)
BALÁTA (Somogy m.) = BAALÁT (1Krón.4,33)
BARAK (Bars m.) = BARAK (1Sám.12,11)
CIBAK (Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun m.) = CIBA (2Sám.3,2)
DÁRDA (Baranya m.) = DARDA (1Krón. 2,6)
EBECK (Nógrád m.) = EBEC (Józs.19,20)
ESZÉK (Verõce m.) = ESZEK (1.Móz.26,21)
GÁT (Bereg m.)GÁTház (Pozsony m.) = GÁT (2Krón.12,18)
HÁGI (Szepes m.) = HAGGI (1.Móz.46,39)
HARKA (Sopron m.) = HARCHA (2Kir.22,14)
HULL (Bars m.) = HUL (1.Móz.10,23)
JÓSAfõ (AbaújTorna m.) = JOSA (1Krón.4,34)
KÁM (Vas m.) = KÁM (1.Móz.5,32)
MACfa (Vas m.) = MAAC (1Krón.2,27)
MECSEK (Baranya m.) = MESEK (1Krón.1,17)
NADAP (Fejér m.) = NADAB (1Krón.9,36)
ÓNOD (Borsod m.) = ONÓ (1Krón.8,12)
PERES (Hont m.) = PERES (1Krón.7,16)
Döbréte-RÁM (Zala m.) = RÁM (Ruth 4,19)
ROSka (Kolozs m.) = ROS (1.Móz.46,21)
SIRÁK (Hont m.) = SIRÁK (Sirák)
SZALMAD (Szabolcs m.) = SZALMA (1Krón. 2,51)
SZEMÉRe (Abaúj-Torna m.) = SZEMER (1Kir. 16,24)
SZETe (Hont m.) = SZET (1.Móz5,6)
SZUD (Hont m.) = SZUD (Báruk.1,4)
URI (Pest-P-S-K m.) = URI (1Kir. 4,19)
ZIMÁND (Arad m.) = ZIMA (1Krón. 6,5)


Anyone being familiar with Biblical Commentaries can easily identify a height called Taborhegy (Mount Tabor or Tavor, or Har-Tabor/Tavor according to Hebrew) in the land of Manasseh, meaning Mount of Camp (Táborhegy) in Hungarian, exactly according to the ears of Hungarians!

Many Hungarian location exist those names resemble the geographical areas of Hungarians' origin or their inhabitants, or the Old Testament of the Holy Bible. A list without the need of completeness:

Today's Hungary:
Ábrahámhegy, Bakonyszombathely, Barabás, Bélmegyer, Boldogasszonyfa, Egyházaskozár, Garabonc, Szombathely, Istenmezeje, Iszkáz, Izsák, Izsákfa, Jakabháza, Jakabszállás, Józsa, Káld, Kám, Kazár, Kõrösszakál, Mecsekszakál, Nagykozár, Nagyszokoly, Nógrádmegyer, Nógrádszakál, Nyírmada, Pápasalamon, Salomvár, Sámsonháza, számos Sár- "fehér" kezdetű név, Simonfa, Simontornya, Sinatelep, Somogysámson, Szakáld, Szakály, Szakoly, Sárföld, Szárliget, Székely, Székelyszabar, Szenna, Szentsimon, Tata (Tata, India), Vasboldogasszony, Vasmegyer, Zabar, Zalaszabar.

Transylvania, Roumania:
Atyha, Ábránfalva, Ádámos, Árvátfalva, Betfalva, Bethlen, Bethlenszentmiklós, Bihar (Bihar, India), Bihardiószeg, Dános, Felsõszombatfalva, Gyulafehérvár, Gyulakuta, Gyulavarsánd, Hadad, Hargitafürdõ, Héderfája, Herkulesfürdõ, Hétúr, Keresztényfalva, Kereszténysziget, Kézdialbis, Kézdialmás, Kézdikõvár, Kézdimárkosfalva, Kézdimartonfalva, Kézdimartonos, Kézdioroszfalu, Kézdisárfalva, Kézdiszárazpatak, Kézdiszászfalu, Kézdiszentkereszt, Kézdiszentlélek, Kézdivásárhely, Kozárvár, Mezõörményes, Mezõsámsond, Obád, Örményes, Szárhegy
many other locations with names beginning with "Magyar-", or "Kászon-".

Today's Slovakia:
Besenyõfalu, Betlenfalva, Felsõelefánt (this one is for speciality only, being elephants absolutely strange in this part of the world), Hutti, Illés, Izsákfalva, Nagymegyer, Nagyszombat, Rimaszombat, Simony, Szepesszombat

Poland:
Bélakorompa

Vojvodina, Serbia:
Kumán, Bácsgyulafalva, India

Subcarpathia, Ukraine:
Halábor, Ungvár, Szõlõsgyula

and some "szerdahely" more from all regions, reminding to the law of third day.
According to Hungarian grammatics can names szakály, szokoly or székely sign places where Sakas (or Sokos and Sekes to some dialects) live(d).

What is the reason of

Northern Mesopotamia was also known as Mada/Mata/Madya. Word "mat", "madh", "madj" means "country" in Sumerian, Sabir, Parthian and other relative languages, but Assyrians and Egyptians used it in the similar meaning. Important detail that sounds "dh" or "dy" are the same as Hungarian "gy", and that Hungarian word "megye" still means the same as in the past. Now if this phrase could stay so long in time, than Hungarians have to be the old tribe of Mitanni. The land of Mitanny or Mada was called Magor or Magar in some ancient Egyptian documents. There are many evidences of similarities between Hungarian and Sumerian/Sabir languages, like "tarshua" in Hurrite/Sabir means "every people", while "shag" in Sumerian was used to tall people or high in rank. Todays Hungarian has the combination of these two words in "társaság". Also Hungarian words of ló (horse), harci mén (war stallion), szekér (wagon) can be identified in Northern Mesopotamian language.

The name of Anatolia (Turkey) is also interesting, in Greek "man from East". In the Turkish - who came from East - it means "Rich Mother", in form of ANA+DOLU, that surprisingly reminds to the combination of Hungarian words ANYA+TELE. This name can be the explanation of the name of Andalusia, Spain, as parallels of name Sephardian, (Subartuan-Savardian) can be identified in the same area.

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