melly

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See also: Melly and mełły

Hungarian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

See mell.

Noun

melly (plural mellyek)

  1. (dialectal or archaic) Alternative form of mell (breast, bust, chest, bosom).
    • 1803, Mihály Csokonai Vitéz, A versengő érzékenységek – Látás (“The Rivaling Perceptions – Sight”), stanza 4:
      Rózsát mosolygó ajaka, / Hószín mellye, márvány nyaka, / Ah, miként elragadtak!
      Her rose-smiling lips, / Snow-coloured breast, and marble neck, / Ah, how they enraptured me!
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative melly mellyek
accusative mellyet mellyeket
dative mellynek mellyeknek
instrumental mellyel mellyekkel
causal-final mellyért mellyekért
translative mellyé mellyekké
terminative mellyig mellyekig
essive-formal mellyként mellyekként
essive-modal
inessive mellyben mellyekben
superessive mellyen mellyeken
adessive mellynél mellyeknél
illative mellybe mellyekbe
sublative mellyre mellyekre
allative mellyhez mellyekhez
elative mellyből mellyekből
delative mellyről mellyekről
ablative mellytől mellyektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
mellyé mellyeké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
mellyéi mellyekéi
Possessive forms of melly
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. mellyem mellyeim
2nd person sing. mellyed mellyeid
3rd person sing. mellye mellyei
1st person plural mellyünk mellyeink
2nd person plural mellyetek mellyeitek
3rd person plural mellyük mellyeik
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See mely.

Pronoun

melly

  1. Obsolete form of mely ( which).

See also

Further reading

  • melly 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