kender

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Danish

Pronunciation

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Particularly: “Any stød?”

Etymology 1

From Old Norse kennari, from kenna.

Noun

kender c (singular definite kenderen, plural indefinite kendere)

  1. connoisseur
  2. expert
Inflection
Declension of kender
common
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative kender kenderen kendere kenderne
genitive kenders kenderens kenderes kendernes

Etymology 2

See kende.

Verb

kender

  1. present of kende

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries).[1] Compare Old Turkic *kändir, Turkish kendir (hemp).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

kender (plural kenderek)

  1. hemp

Declension

Possessive forms of kender
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. kenderem kendereim
2nd person sing. kendered kendereid
3rd person sing. kendere kenderei
1st person plural kenderünk kendereink
2nd person plural kenderetek kendereitek
3rd person plural kenderük kendereik

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ kender 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.)
  2. ^ András Róna-Tas & Árpád Berta, West Old Turkic: Turkic Loanwords in Hungarian. Part 1: Introduction, A-K (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2011), 524-5.

Further reading

  • kender 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