iker

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Basque

Pronunciation

Verb

iker

  1. Short form of ikertu (to investigate).

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from a Chuvash-type Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). By the 18th century it was almost obsolete, but the language reformers successfully reintroduced it nationally. Compare Turkish ikiz (twin).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

iker (plural ikrek)

  1. twin

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative iker ikrek
accusative ikret ikreket
dative ikernek ikreknek
instrumental ikerrel ikrekkel
causal-final ikerért ikrekért
translative ikerré ikrekké
terminative ikerig ikrekig
essive-formal ikerként ikrekként
essive-modal
inessive ikerben ikrekben
superessive ikren ikreken
adessive ikernél ikreknél
illative ikerbe ikrekbe
sublative ikerre ikrekre
allative ikerhez ikrekhez
elative ikerből ikrekből
delative ikerről ikrekről
ablative ikertől ikrektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
ikeré ikreké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
ikeréi ikrekéi
Possessive forms of iker
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. ikrem ikreim
2nd person sing. ikred ikreid
3rd person sing. ikre ikrei
1st person plural ikrünk ikreink
2nd person plural ikretek ikreitek
3rd person plural ikrük ikreik

Derived terms

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References

  1. ^ iker 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

  • iker 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