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I simply know, as a bit of random accretion, that "a magyar nyelv" literally means "the Magyar tongue." Finnish and Hungarian aren't particularly close (no more close than English is to Russian) but both have a similar avoidance of initial consonant clusters, and stress on their first syllables. Here are the Lord's Prayer in each from christusrex.org which lists that prayer in several hundred languages:
FINNISH
Isä meidän, joka olet taivaissa.
Pyhitetty olkoon sinun nimesi.
Tulkoon sinun valtakuntasi.
Tapahtukoon sinun tahtosi myös maan päällä niin kuin taivaassa.
Anna meille tänä päivänä jokapäiväinen leipämme.
Ja anna meille anteeksi velkamme,
niin kuin mekin annamme anteeksi velallisillemme.
Äläkä saata meitä kiusaukseen,
vaan päästä meidät pahasta.
(Sillä sinun on valtakunta
ja voima ja kunnia iankaikkisesti.)
Aamen.
HUNGARIAN
Mi Atyánk, aki a mennyekben vagy,
szenteltessék meg a te neved;
jöjjön el a te országod;
legyen meg a te akaratod,
amint a mennyben, úgy a földön is.
Mindennapi kenyerünket add meg nekünk ma;
és bocsásd meg vétkeinket,
miképpen mi is megbocsátunk
az ellenünk vétkezöknek;
és ne vígy minket kísértésbe;
de szabadíts meg a gonosztól!
Ámen.
It is interesting that the last two words of the second line of each example is "thy name," in Hungarian te neved and in Finnish sinun nimesi. Finno-Ugric and Indo-European share the same roots for the words name, thy, water and much else, and Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Finno-Ugric can be shown to be related in a large trans-Siberian family that also includes Turkic, Mongol, Korean, Japanese and Eskimo-Aleut, as well as the less well known Siberian tribal tongues Nivkh, Yukaghir, and the Chukchi-Kamchatkan phylum. Most of these groups are either horse or reindeer herders, and their origins probably lie in a group of dog-sled Lapplander-like hunter-gatherers who lived near Lake Baikal at the end of the last ice age. The original Hungarian homeland lies to the SE of Yekaterinburg.
Ted Keer
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