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vadon

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Esperanto

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Noun

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vadon

  1. accusative singular of vado

Hungarian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈvɒdon]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: va‧don
  • Rhymes: -on

Etymology 1

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From the adjective vadon, split from phrases such as vadon erdő (wild forest).[1]

Noun

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vadon (plural vadonok)

  1. remote, uncultivated, lush, primeval forest, far from human habitation
  2. wilderness (barren, desolate, abandoned region, uncultivated tract of land)
    A vadon szavaThe Call of the Wild (a 1903 novel by Jack London)
Declension
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Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative vadon vadonok
accusative vadont vadonokat
dative vadonnak vadonoknak
instrumental vadonnal vadonokkal
causal-final vadonért vadonokért
translative vadonná vadonokká
terminative vadonig vadonokig
essive-formal vadonként vadonokként
essive-modal
inessive vadonban vadonokban
superessive vadonon vadonokon
adessive vadonnál vadonoknál
illative vadonba vadonokba
sublative vadonra vadonokra
allative vadonhoz vadonokhoz
elative vadonból vadonokból
delative vadonról vadonokról
ablative vadontól vadonoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
vadoné vadonoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
vadonéi vadonokéi
Possessive forms of vadon
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. vadonom vadonaim, vadonjaim
2nd person sing. vadonod vadonaid, vadonjaid
3rd person sing. vadona, vadonja vadonai, vadonjai
1st person plural vadonunk vadonaink, vadonjaink
2nd person plural vadonotok vadonaitok, vadonjaitok
3rd person plural vadonuk, vadonjuk vadonaik, vadonjaik

Etymology 2

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Adverb

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vadon (not comparable)

  1. (in the) wild, uncultivated (in a natural state, unaffected by cultivation)
    vadon termő gyümölcswild fruit (literally, “fruit produced in the wild”)

Etymology 3

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From the adjective vad (wild) +‎ -o- + -n (nominal-forming suffix). For the -n ~ -ny nominal-forming suffix, compare gyertyán, kemény, sovány.[1]

Adjective

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vadon (not comparable)

  1. (poetic, rare) wild, uncultivated (in a natural state, unaffected by cultivation)
    Synonyms: zord, kietlen, elhagyott

Etymology 4

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vad (wild; game (wild animal)) +‎ -on (superessive case ending)

Adjective

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vadon

  1. superessive singular of vad

Noun

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vadon

  1. superessive singular of vad

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 vadon 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

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  • (remote forest; wilderness): vadon 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