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Hungarian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From the hé- ~ hí- form of the obsolete noun hiu (“void, shortage”) + -ja (possessive suffix). Compare hiány (“lack”) and hiányos (“lacking, deficient”).[1]
Noun
híja (uncountable)
- (with a possessive suffix) lack of something
- nincs híja ― nothing is missing (out of it)
Declension
It is only used with certain case suffixes, most commonly híján, sometimes híjával, rarely híjában, híjától, híjára and híját (as well as plural híjuk (“their lack”)); see also its morphological chart.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
hí (“to call”) (archaic or dialectal variant of hív) + -ja (personal suffix)
Verb
híja
- Alternative form of hívja, third-person singular indicative present definite of hí.
- Alternative form of hívja, third-person singular subjunctive present definite of hí.
References
- ^ híja 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.
Further reading
- híja 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