Historical Linguistics and Language Families 10, Exercise 1: Finnish and Hungarian Correspondence: Finnish -s- against Hungarian -z in vesi / víz and käsi / kéz. The same pair of sounds appears in both words. (This is my reading of the table; the source gives the words, not the set.) Why three words are not enough: a regular correspondence needs enough examples to rule out chance and to test for conditioning. Three items is a very small sample, so the data are consistent with a relationship but do not prove one. Further evidence the source lists (Wikipedia, Uralic languages): shared traits such as agglutination, extensive case systems (Finnish has 15) and vowel harmony in many languages; the early etymologies (Rudbeck 1717, about 40 of about 100 still valid); and Sajnovics's 1770 argument from grammatical features.