csigabiga
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csigabiga
Hungarian
Etymology
A playful reduplication of csiga (“snail”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
csigabiga (plural csigabigák)
- (childish, humorous) snail (an animal of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | csigabiga | csigabigák |
| accusative | csigabigát | csigabigákat |
| dative | csigabigának | csigabigáknak |
| instrumental | csigabigával | csigabigákkal |
| causal-final | csigabigáért | csigabigákért |
| translative | csigabigává | csigabigákká |
| terminative | csigabigáig | csigabigákig |
| essive-formal | csigabigaként | csigabigákként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | csigabigában | csigabigákban |
| superessive | csigabigán | csigabigákon |
| adessive | csigabigánál | csigabigáknál |
| illative | csigabigába | csigabigákba |
| sublative | csigabigára | csigabigákra |
| allative | csigabigához | csigabigákhoz |
| elative | csigabigából | csigabigákból |
| delative | csigabigáról | csigabigákról |
| ablative | csigabigától | csigabigáktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
csigabigáé | csigabigáké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
csigabigáéi | csigabigákéi |
| Possessive forms of csigabiga | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | csigabigám | csigabigáim |
| 2nd person sing. | csigabigád | csigabigáid |
| 3rd person sing. | csigabigája | csigabigái |
| 1st person plural | csigabigánk | csigabigáink |
| 2nd person plural | csigabigátok | csigabigáitok |
| 3rd person plural | csigabigájuk | csigabigáik |
References
- ^ csigabiga 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
- csigabiga 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
- csigabiga in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).