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Hungarian
Etymology
Of debated origin. Either:[1]
- Borrowed from Alanic. Compare Ossetian марг (marg, “poison”).[2] Further akin to Persian مرگ (marg, “death”).
- From Proto-Finno-Ugric *mirkkɜ (“poison”). Compare Finnish myrkky (“poison”), but this is problematic.[3]
Pronunciation
Noun
méreg (plural mérgek)
- poison, venom, toxin
- Synonym: (literally, ‘toxic material’, only if distinction is needed from the other sense) méreganyag
- (somewhat informal) anger, wrath
- Synonyms: harag, düh, bosszúság
- 1651, Miklós Zrínyi, Szigeti veszedelem (The Siege of Sziget), Franklin (1901), canto 15, stanza 85, translated by László Kőrössy:
Igy tészen Delimán és nagy sebességgel / Bánra rugaszkodik, teli sok méreggel. / Ráveti dárdáját hatalmas erővel, / Itéli, hogy nagy bánt lefekteti evvel.- Thus does Deliman, and with incredible swiftness / Leaps at the bán, filled with much venom, / Heaves spear at him with mighty strength, / Expects that the great bán will thus die.
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References
- ^ méreg 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.)
- ^ Benkő, Loránd, ed. A magyar nyelv történeti-etimológiai szótára I–IV. (“The Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”). Budapest: Akadémiai, 1967–1984. →ISBN. Vol. 1: A–Gy (1967), vol. 2: H–O (1970), vol. 3: Ö–Zs (1976), vol. 4: index (1984). – German edition published as Benkő L., editor (1993–1997), “méreg”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Ungarischen I–III [The Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (in German), Vol. 1: A–kop (1993), vol. 2: Kor–zs (1995), vol. 3: index (1997), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, →ISBN
- ^ Entry #547 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
Further reading
- méreg 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