fecske

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Hungarian

 fecske on Hungarian Wikipedia
(1) fecskék
(2) vízilabdások fecskében

Etymology

An onomatopoeia with an uncertain origin. Probably from the same stem as the verb fecseg (“to babble, chatter”). It's also possible that it's from Proto-Finno-Ugric *päčkɜ (“swallow”). Cognates include Finnish pääsky and Estonian pääsuke.[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

fecske (plural fecskék)

  1. swallow (small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long wings and a forked tail)
    • 1907, Károly Pekár, “Az Alföld, a magyarság lakóhelye”, in A magyar nemzeti szépről‎:
      Nagyon kedvelt madara népünknek a villás farkú, villámröptű, vígan csicsergő fecske.
      The swallow, with its forked tail, lightning-fast flight, and gay chirping, is a bird much beloved by our people.
  2. (colloquial) swim briefs, Speedo (tight fitting, triangle-shaped male swimsuit)
    • 2008, Tibor Papp, “Lapozzunk vissza”, in Avantgárd szemmel az irodalmi világról‎:
      Nyár volt, többnyire fürdőruhában, egy szál fecskében ültünk a szobában.
      It was summer, most of the time we were sitting in the room in bathing suits, in nothing but swim briefs.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative fecske fecskék
accusative fecskét fecskéket
dative fecskének fecskéknek
instrumental fecskével fecskékkel
causal-final fecskéért fecskékért
translative fecskévé fecskékké
terminative fecskéig fecskékig
essive-formal fecskeként fecskékként
essive-modal — —
inessive fecskében fecskékben
superessive fecskén fecskéken
adessive fecskénél fecskéknél
illative fecskébe fecskékbe
sublative fecskére fecskékre
allative fecskéhez fecskékhez
elative fecskéből fecskékből
delative fecskéről fecskékről
ablative fecskétől fecskéktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		fecskéé fecskéké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		fecskééi fecskékéi
Possessive forms of fecske
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. fecském fecskéim
2nd person sing. fecskéd fecskéid
3rd person sing. fecskéje fecskéi
1st person plural fecskénk fecskéink
2nd person plural fecskétek fecskéitek
3rd person plural fecskéjük fecskéik

Derived terms

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Expressions

References

  1. ^ Entry #711 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ fecske in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

Further reading

  • fecske 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
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