lyuk
Hungarian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Uralic *lowkke (“hole, opening, cavity, hollow”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lyuk (plural lyukak)
- hole, opening, aperture
- burrow, hollow, lair (e.g. of an animal)
- (colloquial) hole, den, hovel (an undesirable place to live or visit)
- dental cavity (a small or large hole in a tooth caused by caries)
- Synonym: foglyuk
Declension
[edit]| Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | lyuk | lyukak |
| accusative | lyukat | lyukakat |
| dative | lyuknak | lyukaknak |
| instrumental | lyukkal | lyukakkal |
| causal-final | lyukért | lyukakért |
| translative | lyukká | lyukakká |
| terminative | lyukig | lyukakig |
| essive-formal | lyukként | lyukakként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | lyukban | lyukakban |
| superessive | lyukon | lyukakon |
| adessive | lyuknál | lyukaknál |
| illative | lyukba | lyukakba |
| sublative | lyukra | lyukakra |
| allative | lyukhoz | lyukakhoz |
| elative | lyukból | lyukakból |
| delative | lyukról | lyukakról |
| ablative | lyuktól | lyukaktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
lyuké | lyukaké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
lyukéi | lyukakéi |
| Possessive forms of lyuk | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | lyukam | lyukaim |
| 2nd person sing. | lyukad | lyukaid |
| 3rd person sing. | lyuka | lyukai |
| 1st person plural | lyukunk | lyukaink |
| 2nd person plural | lyukatok | lyukaitok |
| 3rd person plural | lyukuk | lyukaik |
Derived terms
[edit]Compound words
Expressions
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Entry #493 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- ^ lyuk 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]- lyuk 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