sánta

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See also: santa, Santa, Sánta, sânta, sântă, and šanta

Hungarian

Etymology

Back-formation from sántál (to limp, hobble). This verb is used in the Székely dialect and it is from a Slavic language, related to Proto-Slavic *šętati.

Pronunciation

Adjective

sánta (comparative sántább, superlative legsántább)

  1. limping
  2. lame

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative sánta sánták
accusative sántát sántákat
dative sántának sántáknak
instrumental sántával sántákkal
causal-final sántáért sántákért
translative sántává sántákká
terminative sántáig sántákig
essive-formal sántaként sántákként
essive-modal
inessive sántában sántákban
superessive sántán sántákon
adessive sántánál sántáknál
illative sántába sántákba
sublative sántára sántákra
allative sántához sántákhoz
elative sántából sántákból
delative sántáról sántákról
ablative sántától sántáktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
sántáé sántáké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
sántáéi sántákéi

Derived terms

(Expressions)

References

  1. ^ sánta 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.)
  2. ^ šantáti”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Further reading

  • sánta 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