 Brückner ("Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego".1927) adduced Slavi "sabl" "rooster" and Menges ("The Oriental elements in the vocabulary of the oldest Russian epos", 1951) attempted to connect the Arabic "saif".</ref> In a more recent suggestion, the Hungarian word may ultimately derive from a Tungusic source, via Kipchak Turkic "selebe", with later metathesis (of "l-b" to "b-l") and apocope changed to "*seble", which would have changed its vocalisation in Hungarian to the recorded "sabla" (perhaps under the influence of the Hungarian word "szab-" "to crop; cut (into shape)".<ref>Possible Tungusic cognates include Manchu "seleme" "dagger", Evenk "sälämä" "sword", argued to be a natively Tungusic formation of "sele" "iron" plus a denominal suffix "-me" by Stachowski (2004).Marek Stachowski, "The Origin of the European Word for Sabre", "Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia" 9 (2004), p. 135, citing V. Rybatzki, "Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia 7" (2002), p. 115), Menges, "Ural-altaische Jahrbücher.