honnan
Appearance
Hungarian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- honnét (folksy)
Etymology
[edit]Lexicalization of the stem of hogy + -n (locative suffix, duplicated).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]honnan
- from where, whence (from which place or source)
- how (by what means)
- Honnan tudtad, hogy hol dolgozott? ― How did you know where she was working?
Derived terms
[edit]Compound words
References
[edit]- ^ honnan 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.)
Further reading
[edit]- honnan 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