gyöngy

Hungarian

Inherited from Old Hungarian *dzsindzsü, borrowed from Bulgar *ǯinǯü, whence also Old East Slavic жьньчюгъ (žĭnĭčjugŭ), further from Common Turkic *yinǯü, ultimately from Middle Chinese 珍珠 (ʈˠiɪn t͡ɕɨo), 真珠 (t͡ɕiɪn t͡ɕɨo, “true pearls”), whence Mandarin 珍珠 (zhēnzhū). Compare Old Turkic 𐰖𐰅𐰨𐰇 (yénčü), Turkish inci.^[1]^[2]

gyöngy (plural gyöngyök)

pearl (a hard round object produced by certain mollusks, often used as jewelry)
bead (any similar, but usually much less valuable object used as part of jewelry, often has a hole; can be made of any material, such as glass, stone, wood, plastic)

Inflection (stem in -ö-, front rounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	gyöngy	gyöngyök
accusative	gyöngyöt	gyöngyöket
dative	gyöngynek	gyöngyöknek
instrumental	gyönggyel	gyöngyökkel
causal-final	gyöngyért	gyöngyökért
translative	gyönggyé	gyöngyökké
terminative	gyöngyig	gyöngyökig
essive-formal	gyöngyként	gyöngyökként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	gyöngyben	gyöngyökben
superessive	gyöngyön	gyöngyökön
adessive	gyöngynél	gyöngyöknél
illative	gyöngybe	gyöngyökbe
sublative	gyöngyre	gyöngyökre
allative	gyöngyhöz	gyöngyökhöz
elative	gyöngyből	gyöngyökből
delative	gyöngyről	gyöngyökről
ablative	gyöngytől	gyöngyöktől
non-attributive possessive - singular	gyöngyé	gyöngyöké
non-attributive possessive - plural	gyöngyéi	gyöngyökéi

Compound words

Expressions

^ gyöngy in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN
^ Tekin, Talat (1997). "Notes on some Chinese Loanwords in Old Turkic", Türk Dilleri Araştırmaları, 7, p. 166 of pp. 165-173.