-ső
See also: Appendix:Variations of "so"
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From -s (adjective-forming suffix) + -ő (adjective-forming suffix). The parts cohered in the Ancient Hungarian period.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ső
Usage notes
[edit]- (adjective-forming suffix) Variants:
- -só is added to back-vowel words
- -ső is added to front-vowel words
- The superlative form of the produced adjective is leg-…-ső. The usual -bb suffix is added only in exceptional cases:
- első - elsőbb - legelső - legeslegelső
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ -ső 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.)