felhő
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felhő
Hungarian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Finno-Ugric *pilwe. Cognates include Estonian pilv, Finnish pilvi and Erzya пель (peľ).[1] The computing sense is a semantic loan from English cloud.
Pronunciation
Noun
felhő (plural felhők)
- cloud (a visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air)
- Synonym: felleg
- (figuratively) cloud (a group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying)
- (figuratively) perilous or concerning phenomenon
- Synonyms: veszély (“danger, hazard, peril”), gond (“trouble”)
- (sötét) felhők tornyosulnak [valakinek] a feje fölött ― (dark) clouds are gathering above ’s head
- (computing, with a) cloud (the Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front rounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | felhő | felhők |
| accusative | felhőt | felhőket |
| dative | felhőnek | felhőknek |
| instrumental | felhővel | felhőkkel |
| causal-final | felhőért | felhőkért |
| translative | felhővé | felhőkké |
| terminative | felhőig | felhőkig |
| essive-formal | felhőként | felhőkként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | felhőben | felhőkben |
| superessive | felhőn | felhőkön |
| adessive | felhőnél | felhőknél |
| illative | felhőbe | felhőkbe |
| sublative | felhőre | felhőkre |
| allative | felhőhöz | felhőkhöz |
| elative | felhőből | felhőkből |
| delative | felhőről | felhőkről |
| ablative | felhőtől | felhőktől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
felhőé | felhőké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
felhőéi | felhőkéi |
| Possessive forms of felhő | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | felhőm | felhőim |
| 2nd person sing. | felhőd | felhőid |
| 3rd person sing. | felhője | felhői |
| 1st person plural | felhőnk | felhőink |
| 2nd person plural | felhőtök | felhőitek |
| 3rd person plural | felhőjük | felhőik |
Derived terms
Compound words
References
- ^ Entry #767 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
Further reading
- felhő 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
- felhő 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).