Makkay János: A magyarság keltezése – A Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok Megyei Múzeumok közleményei 48. (1994)

in Old-Hungarian bular (bolgár). Of these orosz, varang/várong and eszlár/oszlár were borrowed from various roots into the Turkic language of Arpad's people before the Conquest, and this took place in the territory east of the Carpathians. Varsány was the name of the Alanians used by Kuvration Onogurs. Zsidó, jász, görög, német, bolgár, on the other hand, are loan-words from South and West Slavic dialects, and were borrowed in the Carpathian Basin before AD. 895. The case of bolgár/bular is an interesting one. Before AD. 895 Arpad's Turkic people living east of the Carpathians used the Turkic form bular, while contemporary Proto-Hungarians living in the Carpathian Basin borrowed the already Slavicised form bolgár. At this time, the Danubian Bolgár Onogurs had already been assimilated into the Slavic masses and were called bolgár in Slavic (and not bular as in Onogur Turkic). Of the name of the Alanians the Old-Hungarian language had three variants (and in addition the word káliz from the geographic name Choresm). The name eszlár/oszlár comes from the Common Turkic plural of as [= Alanian] + lar (the Turkic plural ending). Varsány also meant 'Alanian' in Hungarian. It came from the Alanian as + ion through Bolgar-Turkic vosjan > Vosciani > vosian > Hung. Varsány. The borrowers of eszlár (and of orosz = Russian) were the Turkic people of Árpád, the borrowers of Varsány, however, were the Kuvratian Onogurs. The third word for Alanians in Hungarian, jász, was borrowed from South Slavic, very probably from Old Bulgarian before the AD. 895 Conquest in the Carpathian Basin. A prothetic jbefore initial a (j + as = Hungarian jász) was already in use in Old -South Slavic before AD. 895. These new interpretations of the borrowings in question strongly support the theory that Proto-Hungarian speaking groups were already living in the Carpathian Basin in the Avar periods. A further group speaking Old-Hungarian were the forebears of the Székely people (the Hungarians of eastern Transylvania). Some Hungarian historians and linguists (as for example Gy. Németh, L. Makkai, Gy. Györffy, Gy. Kristó) think that they were originally Turkic speakers and as а гesult of the Árpádian Conquest they were absorbed into the Hungarian masses of Árpád's people. Chapter 3.8. presents some of the evidence against this highly speculative and perilous theory, while firmly maintaining that the Székelys, with their archaic, 220