A Reassessment of the Adaptation of West Old Turkic Loanwords in Hungarian: New Findings and Perspectives

The adaptation of West Old Turkic (WOT) loanwords into Hungarian is reevaluated in this work, with an emphasis on phonetic and phonological changes that occur during borrowing and the adaptation processes. Building on the previous work that measured phonetic distances using an improved Levenshtein distance algorithm, this study includes dataset adjustments and theoretical understanding of the different processes of borrowing and adaptation. The study separates the more significant rule-based pho