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csont on Hungarian Wikipedia
Etymology
Two options:
- either from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ćolme (“knot, bundel; to bind”), cf. Hungarian csomó (“knot”), for the semantic shift cf. also German Knoten (“knot”) vs. Knochen (“bone”) (with a noun-forming suffix -t added in Hungarian, cf. evet, nyest, menyét,[1] but the last three words might have a diminutive -t instead),[2]
- or from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ćutte (“ankle bone”), for the semantic shift cf. Finnish kontti (“shinbone”) vs. Estonian kont (“bone”) and German Knöchel (“ankle”) vs. Knochen (“bone”) (with an inorganic -n inserted in Hungarian, cf. csüng, ránt).[3] This explanation is less convincing as the only supposed cognate is in Sami, a language distantly related to Hungarian.[2][4]
Pronunciation
Noun
csont (countable and uncountable, plural csontok)
- bone
Declension
Derived terms
References
- ^ Entry #67 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 csont in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
- ^ Entry #81 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- ^ csont 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
- csont in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
- csont 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).