pöfeteg

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Hungarian

Etymology

First attested around 1525. From an otherwise unattested stem + -eteg (noun-forming suffix). The stem is the same as of the verb püffed (to swell). The name refers to the mushroom's swollen, puffed-up appearance.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

pöfeteg (plural pöfetegek)

  1. puffball (any of various fungi that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative pöfeteg pöfetegek
accusative pöfeteget pöfetegeket
dative pöfetegnek pöfetegeknek
instrumental pöfeteggel pöfetegekkel
causal-final pöfetegért pöfetegekért
translative pöfeteggé pöfetegekké
terminative pöfetegig pöfetegekig
essive-formal pöfetegként pöfetegekként
essive-modal
inessive pöfetegben pöfetegekben
superessive pöfetegen pöfetegeken
adessive pöfetegnél pöfetegeknél
illative pöfetegbe pöfetegekbe
sublative pöfetegre pöfetegekre
allative pöfeteghez pöfetegekhez
elative pöfetegből pöfetegekből
delative pöfetegről pöfetegekről
ablative pöfetegtől pöfetegektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
pöfetegé pöfetegeké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
pöfetegéi pöfetegekéi
Possessive forms of pöfeteg
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. pöfetegem pöfetegeim
2nd person sing. pöfeteged pöfetegeid
3rd person sing. pöfetege pöfetegei
1st person plural pöfetegünk pöfetegeink
2nd person plural pöfetegetek pöfetegeitek
3rd person plural pöfetegük pöfetegeik

References

  1. ^ pöfeteg 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

  • pöfeteg 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