féreg

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Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *perkɜ or *perkkɜ (worm).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

féreg (plural férgek)

  1. worm, maggot
    Coordinate terms: (maggot) kukac, (caterpillar) hernyó, (earthworm) giliszta, nyű (their senses may overlap, especially in informal speech)
  2. (zoology) worm, namely a member of Annelida, Platyhelminthes, Platyzoa, Sipunculida, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Nemathelminthes, or Acanthocephala (any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, all having the element -férgek in their Hungarian names)
  3. (folksy) parasite, vermin, pest, insect, bug, bedbug, chinch
  4. (archaic) wolf or another large beast of prey

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative féreg férgek
accusative férget férgeket
dative féregnek férgeknek
instrumental féreggel férgekkel
causal-final féregért férgekért
translative féreggé férgekké
terminative féregig férgekig
essive-formal féregként férgekként
essive-modal
inessive féregben férgekben
superessive férgen férgeken
adessive féregnél férgeknél
illative féregbe férgekbe
sublative féregre férgekre
allative féreghez férgekhez
elative féregből férgekből
delative féregről férgekről
ablative féregtől férgektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
féregé férgeké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
féregéi férgekéi
Possessive forms of féreg
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. férgem férgeim
2nd person sing. férged férgeid
3rd person sing. férge férgei
1st person plural férgünk férgeink
2nd person plural férgetek férgeitek
3rd person plural férgük férgeik

Derived terms

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Expressions

References

  1. ^ Entry #748 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ féreg 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

  • féreg 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