torony

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Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Turm, from Middle High German turn, via Old French torn from Latin turris.[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

torony (plural tornyok)

  1. tower
  2. (chess, rare) Synonym of bástya (rook)

Declension

Its essive-modal can also be tornyul (aside from toronyul).

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative torony tornyok
accusative tornyot tornyokat
dative toronynak tornyoknak
instrumental toronnyal tornyokkal
causal-final toronyért tornyokért
translative toronnyá tornyokká
terminative toronyig tornyokig
essive-formal toronyként tornyokként
essive-modal toronyul
inessive toronyban tornyokban
superessive tornyon tornyokon
adessive toronynál tornyoknál
illative toronyba tornyokba
sublative toronyra tornyokra
allative toronyhoz tornyokhoz
elative toronyból tornyokból
delative toronyról tornyokról
ablative toronytól tornyoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
toronyé tornyoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
toronyéi tornyokéi
Possessive forms of torony
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. tornyom tornyaim
2nd person sing. tornyod tornyaid
3rd person sing. tornya tornyai
1st person plural tornyunk tornyaink
2nd person plural tornyotok tornyaitok
3rd person plural tornyuk tornyaik

Derived terms

Compound words with this term at the beginning
Compound words with this term at the end

Descendants

  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: то́рањ
    Latin script: tóranj

See also

Chess pieces in Hungarian · sakkfigurák, sakkbábuk (layout · text)
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király vezér (királynő) bástya (rare: torony) futó (futár) huszár () gyalog (paraszt)

References

  1. ^ torony 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. ^ torony in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

Further reading

  • torony 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