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Hungarian
Etymology
Uncertain. Possibly borrowed from German ledig (“whole, complete; free (dialectal)”), although the commercial senses are not attested in German. Originally used in business jargon.[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
lédig (not comparable)
- (informal) bulk, wholesale (sold in large quantities, often for resale)
- Synonym: ömlesztett
- Antonym: kiszerelt
- lédig cukor ― bulk sugar
- lédig keksz ― bulk cookies
- lédig bor ― bulk wine
2011, Neil Gaiman, “Nagykeráron beszámítjuk [We Can Get Them for You Wholesale]”, in Tükör és füst, Budapest: Agave Könyvek, translation of Smoke and Mirrors, →ISBN, page unknown:– Négyszázötven fontot mondtam volna, uram? Jézusisten, bocsásson meg. Nagyon sajnálom, de a lédig árra gondoltam. Elnézését kérem, de a két ember négyszázhetvenöt font.- ‘Did I say four hundred and fifty pounds, sir? Good gracious me, I do apologize. I beg your pardon, I was thinking of our bulk rate. It would be four hundred and seventy-five pounds for two people.’
- (informal) loose (not prepackaged)
- Synonyms: ömlesztett, csomagolatlan
- Antonym: előrecsomagolt
- egy kilogramm lédig alma ― one kilogram of loose apples
Declension
References
- ^ Tamás Forgács (1997) “Lédig cukor”, in Magyar Nyelvőr (in Hungarian), volume 121, number 2, pages 222–227