Simple words are usually those that stayed with a language the longest.
Hungarian also has a very high percentage of loanwords, and a lot of those very old ancient non-compound non-calque non-loanwords are single syllable.
Like:
Horse = Ló
Road = Út
Bridge = Híd
Army = Had
Herd of horses = Mén



In Hungarian, to pull a woman is in fact slang meaning to have sex with her.