lösz

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See also: lősz, and łosz

Hungarian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Löss (yellowish-gray soil), from Alemannic German lösch (loose).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -øs

Noun

lösz (uncountable)

  1. (geology) loess, yellow soil, yellow earth
Declension
Inflection (stem in -ö-, front rounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative lösz
accusative löszt
dative lösznek
instrumental lösszel
causal-final löszért
translative lösszé
terminative löszig
essive-formal löszként
essive-modal
inessive löszben
superessive löszön
adessive lösznél
illative löszbe
sublative löszre
allative löszhöz
elative löszből
delative löszről
ablative lösztől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
löszé
non-attributive
possessive - plural
löszéi
Possessive forms of lösz
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. löszöm
2nd person sing. löszöd
3rd person sing. lösze
1st person plural löszünk
2nd person plural löszötök
3rd person plural löszük

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): , (long before a vowel or at the end of a sentence; short before a consonant)[2]
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Verb

lösz

  1. (dialectal) Alternative form of lesz (will be; to become)

References

  1. ^ lösz in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
  2. ^ Section 69 of AkH.11, Section 68 in A magyar helyesírás szabályai, 12. kiadás (’The Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2015. →ISBN

Further reading

  • lösz 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