Historical Linguistics and Language Families 9, Exercise 1: Finnish and Hungarian vesi / víz Finnish -s- against Hungarian -z käsi / kéz Finnish -s- against Hungarian -z The same pair of sounds appears in both words, which is what makes it look like a correspondence set (Chapter 3) and not a coincidence. Two items are a small sample; the source gives these words as part of its cognate table and does not state the correspondence in those terms, so this reading is my application of the method, not a quotation. The initial consonant is more complicated: Finnish k- against Hungarian h- in kala/hal but k- against k- in käsi/kéz, which would need more data (and the following vowel) to explain.