idomtalan
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Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably a doublet-formation from ildomtalan (“unreasonable, foolish (1416); imporper (1859)”) by dropping the internal -l- of the word. Itself is probably borrowed from Turkish + -talan (“-less, without”, adjective-forming suffix). First attested in 1784.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]idomtalan (comparative idomtalanabb, superlative legidomtalanabb)
- (literary) ungainly (strikingly large and clumsy)
- 1881, Mikszáth Kálmán, Tót atyafiak[1]:
- Matyej behunyta szemeit, s egyet bólintott, nagy, idomtalan fejével, hogy ő nem aljas.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (archaic) shapeless, malformed, misshapen (having a bad or ugly form)
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | idomtalan | idomtalanok |
accusative | idomtalant | idomtalanokat |
dative | idomtalannak | idomtalanoknak |
instrumental | idomtalannal | idomtalanokkal |
causal-final | idomtalanért | idomtalanokért |
translative | idomtalanná | idomtalanokká |
terminative | idomtalanig | idomtalanokig |
essive-formal | idomtalanként | idomtalanokként |
essive-modal | idomtalanul | — |
inessive | idomtalanban | idomtalanokban |
superessive | idomtalanon | idomtalanokon |
adessive | idomtalannál | idomtalanoknál |
illative | idomtalanba | idomtalanokba |
sublative | idomtalanra | idomtalanokra |
allative | idomtalanhoz | idomtalanokhoz |
elative | idomtalanból | idomtalanokból |
delative | idomtalanról | idomtalanokról |
ablative | idomtalantól | idomtalanoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
idomtalané | idomtalanoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
idomtalanéi | idomtalanokéi |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ idomtalan in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
Further reading
[edit]- idomtalan 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