mely
Appearance
Hungarian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- melly (dialectal or archaic)
Etymology
[edit]Lexicalization of më-, a variant stem of mi (“what?”) + -l (> ly, ablative case suffix).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Determiner
[edit]mely
- (interrogative, literary) which
- Synonym: melyik
- 1847, Sándor Petőfi, A Tisza (The Tisza),[1] translated by Watson Kirkconnell:[2]
- Oh természet, oh dicső természet! / Mely nyelv merne versenyezni véled?
- O Nature, glorious Nature, who would dare / with reckless tongue to match your wondrous fare?
- (literally, “…which language would dare to rival with you?”)
- O Nature, glorious Nature, who would dare / with reckless tongue to match your wondrous fare?
- Oh természet, oh dicső természet! / Mely nyelv merne versenyezni véled?
- Mely kérdésekre tudtad a választ? ― To which questions did you know the answers?
- (relative, literary or archaic) which
- 2017, Gyula Kollát (ed.), Spanyol tájakon 6. – Galícia (“On Spanish Lands #6: Galicia”), Szép Világunk magazin:[3]
- A tartomány fővárosa Santiago de Compostela, mely név hallatán legtöbbünknek a híres zarándokút, az El Camino ugrik be.
- The capital of the province is Santiago de Compostela, on hearing which name the famous pilgrimage route El Camino will come to mind for most of us.
- 2017, Gyula Kollát (ed.), Spanyol tájakon 6. – Galícia (“On Spanish Lands #6: Galicia”), Szép Világunk magazin:[3]
- (exclamatory, archaic, rare) what, how
- 1796, Mihály Csokonai Vitéz, “Above Sleeping Lilla”, in Az alvó Lilla felett:
- Ah, mely édes ízzel / Alszik kincsem itt! –
- Ah, with what a sweet taste / My treasure is sleeping here! –
Pronoun
[edit]mely
- (interrogative, now plural only) which
- Melyek az ország legnagyobb városai? ― Which are the biggest cities of the country?
- (relative, literary) which, that
- 1847, Sándor Petőfi, Egy gondolat bánt engemet… (“I’m Troubled by One Thought…”), translated by Ádám Makkai:
- Legyek fa, melyen villám fut keresztül, / Vagy melyet szélvész csavar ki tövestül;
- Let me be a tree, transfixed by lightning / torn up by storms from its roots’ deepest fastening—
- (literally, “…through which a lightning runs, / or which is torn up by a gale, root and branch”)
- Let me be a tree, transfixed by lightning / torn up by storms from its roots’ deepest fastening—
- Legyek fa, melyen villám fut keresztül, / Vagy melyet szélvész csavar ki tövestül;
- 1847, Sándor Petőfi, Egy gondolat bánt engemet… (“I’m Troubled by One Thought…”), translated by Ádám Makkai:
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | mely | melyek |
accusative | melyet | melyeket |
dative | melynek | melyeknek |
instrumental | mellyel | melyekkel |
causal-final | melyért | melyekért |
translative | mellyé | melyekké |
terminative | melyig | melyekig |
essive-formal | melyként | melyekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | melyben | melyekben |
superessive | melyen | melyeken |
adessive | melynél | melyeknél |
illative | melybe | melyekbe |
sublative | melyre | melyekre |
allative | melyhez | melyekhez |
elative | melyből | melyekből |
delative | melyről | melyekről |
ablative | melytől | melyektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
melyé | melyeké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
melyéi | melyekéi |
Derived terms
[edit]Compound words
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ mely 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]- mely 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
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