Hungarian and Irish - links?

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There is no link between the two languages genetically. They are from two different language families, Indo-European and Uralic.

The words for "woman" do not appear to have any connection.

• Irish bean, meaning "woman", has the genitive singular form mná, and both are descended from the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) *gʷḗn, also meaning "woman".

• Hungarian nő, "woman", is descended from Proto-Uralic *näxi, also meaning "woman".

However, I was not able to find an origin for the Hungarian for "man":

• Irish fear, meaning "man", has the genitive singular form fir, and both are descended from the PIE *wiHrós, also meaning "man".

• Hungarian férfi: ??? It's possible that this word was originally a loan word from an Indo-European language nearby. Hungarian has loan words from Iranian, Germanic, Slavic and other languages (as well as some non-Indo-European languages).

I would say that they are probably not related in any way, but you never know. Let us know if you find anything else about the etymology of this word!

Sources:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bean#E...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fear#I...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/n%C5%91