Tejút
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Hungarian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Tejút
- (astronomy) our galaxy that we inhabit
- Synonym: Tejútrendszer
- (astronomy) Milky Way, a broad band of diffuse white light, visible in the night sky; our view of the galaxy that we inhabit
Usage notes
Some astronomical and geographical terms have both a lowercase (common noun) and a capitalized (proper noun) form. For föld (“ground, soil”)―Föld (“Earth”), hold (“moon, satellite”)―Hold (“the Moon”), and nap (“day; sun”)―Nap (“the Sun”), the lowercase forms are used in the everyday sense and the capitalized forms in the astronomical sense. In other similar pairs, the former refers to generic sense, and the latter specifies the best known referent: egyenlítő (“equator”)―Egyenlítő (“Equator”), naprendszer (“solar system, planetary system”)―Naprendszer (“Solar System”), and tejút (“galaxy”, literally “milky way”, but galaxis and galaktika are more common)―Tejút (“Milky Way”).
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | Tejút | — |
| accusative | Tejutat | — |
| dative | Tejútnak | — |
| instrumental | Tejúttal | — |
| causal-final | Tejútért | — |
| translative | Tejúttá | — |
| terminative | Tejútig | — |
| essive-formal | Tejútként | — |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | Tejútban | — |
| superessive | Tejúton | — |
| adessive | Tejútnál | — |
| illative | Tejútba | — |
| sublative | Tejútra | — |
| allative | Tejúthoz | — |
| elative | Tejútból | — |
| delative | Tejútról | — |
| ablative | Tejúttól | — |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
Tejúté | — |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
Tejútéi | — |
| Possessive forms of Tejút | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | Tejutam | — |
| 2nd person sing. | Tejutad | — |
| 3rd person sing. | Tejútja | — |
| 1st person plural | Tejutunk | — |
| 2nd person plural | Tejutatok | — |
| 3rd person plural | Tejútjuk | — |
Further reading
- tejút 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