kukac
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(1) kukac
See also: kukać
Hungarian
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Etymology
From Kajkavian Serbo-Croatian kúkac (“insect”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
kukac (plural kukacok)
- maggot (soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect)
- Coordinate terms: (worm) féreg, (caterpillar) hernyó, (earthworm) giliszta, nyű (their senses may overlap, especially in informal speech)
- 1925, Géza Gárdonyi, “Hernyó”, in Mai csodák:
- Mert abból a kukacból, ami a cseresznyében van, kis fekete légy lesz.
- Because maggots found in cherries turn into small black flies.
- (Internet) at sign, at (the symbol @, most commonly used in email addresses)
- Synonym: kukacjel
- (childish, slang) willy, wee-wee (penis, especially that of a prepubescent boy)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | kukac | kukacok |
| accusative | kukacot | kukacokat |
| dative | kukacnak | kukacoknak |
| instrumental | kukaccal | kukacokkal |
| causal-final | kukacért | kukacokért |
| translative | kukaccá | kukacokká |
| terminative | kukacig | kukacokig |
| essive-formal | kukacként | kukacokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | kukacban | kukacokban |
| superessive | kukacon | kukacokon |
| adessive | kukacnál | kukacoknál |
| illative | kukacba | kukacokba |
| sublative | kukacra | kukacokra |
| allative | kukachoz | kukacokhoz |
| elative | kukacból | kukacokból |
| delative | kukacról | kukacokról |
| ablative | kukactól | kukacoktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
kukacé | kukacoké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
kukacéi | kukacokéi |
| Possessive forms of kukac | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | kukacom | kukacaim |
| 2nd person sing. | kukacod | kukacaid |
| 3rd person sing. | kukaca | kukacai |
| 1st person plural | kukacunk | kukacaink |
| 2nd person plural | kukacotok | kukacaitok |
| 3rd person plural | kukacuk | kukacaik |
Derived terms
Compound words
Expressions
References
- ^ kukac 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
- kukac 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
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
The word entered the standard language from the Kajkavian Serbo-Croatian dialect, morphologically from kȕka (“hook”) + diminutive suffix -ac.
Noun
kukac m (Cyrillic spelling кукац) (Croatia)