fiú

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See also: fiu, FIU, fíu, fiù, and fiû

Hungarian

Alternative forms

  • fi (archaic)

Etymology

From Old Hungarian fioɣ or fió with the original stem fi akin to Proto-Uralic *pojka (“son, boy”) + -ú (“archaic diminutive suffix”) (also attested as -oɣ, -ó in Old Hungarian). Cognates include Northern Mansi пыг (pyg, “son, boy”), Udmurt пи (pi, “son, boy”), Komi-Zyrian пи (pi, “son, boy”), Erzya пиё (pijo, “grandson”) and Finnish poika. See also faj. False cognate of Romanian fiu.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -juː

Noun

fiú (plural fiúk)

  1. boy
    Synonym: srác (informal)
  2. son
    Synonym: fiúgyermek
    az apa és a fia ― the father and his son
  3. (colloquial) boyfriend
    Synonyms: barát, pasi

Usage notes

  • In terms of its possessive forms, fia is used in the sense of one’s son, while one’s boyfriend is fiúja. Their other possessive forms consistently differ in the same way: the ’son’ with the irregular forms and the ’boyfriend’ with the regular forms.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative fiú fiúk
accusative fiút fiúkat
dative fiúnak fiúknak
instrumental fiúval fiúkkal
causal-final fiúért fiúkért
translative fiúvá fiúkká
terminative fiúig fiúkig
essive-formal fiúként fiúkként
essive-modal — —
inessive fiúban fiúkban
superessive fiún fiúkon
adessive fiúnál fiúknál
illative fiúba fiúkba
sublative fiúra fiúkra
allative fiúhoz fiúkhoz
elative fiúból fiúkból
delative fiúról fiúkról
ablative fiútól fiúktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		fiúé fiúké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		fiúéi fiúkéi
  • in the sense of 'son':
Possessive forms of fiú
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. fiam fiaim
2nd person sing. fiad fiaid
3rd person sing. fia fiai
1st person plural fiunk fiaink
2nd person plural fiatok fiaitok
3rd person plural fiuk fiaik
  • otherwise (e.g. 'boyfriend'):
Possessive forms of fiú
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. fiúm fiúim
2nd person sing. fiúd fiúid
3rd person sing. fiúja fiúi
1st person plural fiúnk fiúink
2nd person plural fiútok fiúitok
3rd person plural fiújuk fiúik

Derived terms

Compound words

Related terms

References

  1. ^ Entry #785 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

Further reading

  • fiú 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

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish fíu, from Proto-Celtic *wesus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wésus.

Pronunciation

Noun

fiú (indeclinable)

  1. (used with is) worth
    Ní fiú pingin é.
    It isn’t worth a penny.
  2. (used with is and le) worth it, worthwhile
    is fiú liom ― it’s worth it to me
  3. (used with the genitive of a following definite noun) even
    Níl fiú an léine aige.
    He hasn’t even a shirt.
    gan fiú na mbróg ― without even shoes

Related terms

Adverb

fiú

  1. even
    Níl sé leathlán fiú.
    It is not even half full.

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fiú fhiú bhfiú
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 57, page 30
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 113
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 192, page 74

Further reading

Old Irish

Adjective

fiú

  1. Alternative spelling of fíu
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