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Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]No generally accepted origin.[1] Derivation as an old compound *muntVrV ← *muna-tojV-rV, 'egg-laying one' (compare mony (“egg”) and tojik (“to lay eggs”)), has been proposed.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]madár (plural madarak)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | madár | madarak |
| accusative | madarat | madarakat |
| dative | madárnak | madaraknak |
| instrumental | madárral | madarakkal |
| causal-final | madárért | madarakért |
| translative | madárrá | madarakká |
| terminative | madárig | madarakig |
| essive-formal | madárként | madarakként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | madárban | madarakban |
| superessive | madáron | madarakon |
| adessive | madárnál | madaraknál |
| illative | madárba | madarakba |
| sublative | madárra | madarakra |
| allative | madárhoz | madarakhoz |
| elative | madárból | madarakból |
| delative | madárról | madarakról |
| ablative | madártól | madaraktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
madáré | madaraké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
madáréi | madarakéi |
| Possessive forms of madár | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | madaram | madaraim |
| 2nd person sing. | madarad | madaraid |
| 3rd person sing. | madara | madarai |
| 1st person plural | madarunk | madaraink |
| 2nd person plural | madaratok | madaraitok |
| 3rd person plural | madaruk | madaraik |
Derived terms
[edit]Compound words with this term at the beginning
Compound words with this term at the end
Expressions
References
[edit]- ^ madár in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
- ^ Abondolo, Daniel. 2007. "Phonosemantic subsets in the lexicon: Hungarian avian nomenclature and l'arbitraire du signe". Central Europe 5/1, 3–23.
Further reading
[edit]- madár in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN