jó

Hungarian

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• Rhymes: -joː

Etymology 1

From Proto-Ugric *jomɜ ~ *jamɜ (“good”). Cognates include Northern Mansi ёмас (ëmas, “good, right, nice”) and possibly also Erzya ён (jon, “good, right, nice”).

Adjective

jó (comparative jobb, superlative legjobb)

1. good (good for something (can be used for) -ra/-re, good at something -ban/-ben, good for someone (positively affects) -nak/-nek, good to someone [e.g. helping, caring] -hoz/-hez/-höz)

   See synonyms at Thesaurus:jó.

   Antonym: rossz

2. (used with ideje/ideig, darab, adag, néhány and some other fixed phrases) quite (some), fair (amount of…), considerable, significant, hefty, sizeable

   Synonyms: jókora, jelentős

   Jó ideje vándorolt már. ― He had been on his way for quite some time.

Declension

Derived terms

Noun

jó (plural jók or javak)

1. good thing or person

   Még a jóktól is elvették a javaikat.

   Even the good ones were deprived of their possessions.

   (literally, “Even from the good ones too they took away their goods.”)

2. B (an academic grade, better than a C and worse than an A) (Uses only the "jó-" stem, not "jav-".)
3. (plural only) goods, possessions, assets (see at javak)

Usage notes

The 5-point grade system in Hungary:

1. jeles (“excellent”) or ötös (“five”), like English A
2. jó (“good”) or négyes (“four”), like English B
3. közepes (“fair, satisfactory”) or hármas (“three”), like English C
4. elégséges (“sufficient”) or kettes (“two”), like English D
5. elégtelen (“insufficient”) or egyes (“one”), like English F

Declension

In the senses “good thing or person” and “B (academic grade)”:

In the sense “goods, possessions, assets”:

Derived terms

Interjection

jó

1. alright, okay, fine

Adverb

jó (not comparable)

1. (informal) quite, pretty

   Jó nagy halat fogtál! ― You've caught a pretty big fish!

Etymology 2

From Proto-Uralic *joke. Cognates include Northern Mansi я̄ (â̄, “river”), Finnish joki (“river”), Estonian jõgi (“river”), Karelian jogi (“river”), Veps jogi (“river”). Replaced by folyó.

Noun

jó (plural jók)

2. (obsolete) river (occurs in compound proper names, such as Sajó, Berettyó, Héjő)

Declension

References

• ^ Géza Bárczi, Magyar szófejtő szótár, Trezor Kiadó, 1991, →ISBN
• ^ Starostin's Uralic Database, Entry #1782

Further reading

• jó 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

Kpee

Noun

jó

1. water

References

• V Vydrin, On the Problem of the Proto-Mande Homeland (JOLR, 2009)

Middle Vietnamese

Verb

jó

1. Alternative spelling of gió

References

• De Rhodes, Alexandre (1651), “jó”, Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum.

Navajo

Interjection

jó

1. well, you see, you know, as you know

   Jó, nizhóní! ― Well, that’s nice.

   Jó, ákótʼé. ― that’s the way it is.

Conjunction

jó

1. since

Noone

Verb

jó

1. hear

References

• R. Blench, Beboid Comparative

Old Norse

Noun

jó

1. accusative singular of jór

Seenku

Noun

jó

1. water

References

• V Vydrin, On the Problem of the Proto-Mande Homeland (JOLR, 2009)