tél

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Alternative forms

Noun

tél m (plural téls)

  1. telephone number: Clipping of numéro de téléphone.
  2. telephone: Clipping of téléphone.

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *tälwä (winter). Cognates include Southern Mansi тӓ̄л (tǟl), Northern Mansi та̄л (tāl), Moksha тяла (ťala), Erzya теле (ťeľe), Finnish talvi and Estonian talv.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: tél
  • Rhymes: -eːl

Noun

tél (plural telek)

  1. winter
    Hypernym: évszak
    Coordinate terms: tavasz, nyár, ősz

Usage notes

Adverbs of temporal nouns     (see also: Appendix:Hungarian words of time)
no suffix (the noun
can act as an adverb
)
nappal (daytime), reggel (early morning), délelőtt (late morning), délután (afternoon), este (evening), éjjel / éjszaka (night), and vasárnap (Sunday)
-kor (at) pirkadat / virradat (dawn), napkelte (sunrise), napnyugta (sunset), alkonyat (dusk), szürkület (twilight), éjfél (midnight), hours and minutes, and the names of holidays (húsvét (Easter) etc.)
-ban/-ben (in) dél (noon), hajnal (daybreak), names of months (januárdecember) and hónap (month), évszak (season), év (year) and specific years, évtized (decade) and longer periods
-n/-on/-en/-ön (on) days of the week (hétfőszombat) except Sunday, days of the month (elseje (1st), másodika (2nd) etc.), nap (day), hét (week), nyár (summer), and tél (winter)
-val/-vel (with, assimilated: -szal/-szel) tavasz (spring), ősz (autumn, fall)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative tél telek
accusative telet teleket
dative télnek teleknek
instrumental téllel telekkel
causal-final télért telekért
translative téllé telekké
terminative télig telekig
essive-formal télként telekként
essive-modal
inessive télben telekben
superessive télen teleken
adessive télnél teleknél
illative télbe telekbe
sublative télre telekre
allative télhez telekhez
elative télből telekből
delative télről telekről
ablative téltől telektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
télé teleké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
téléi telekéi
Possessive forms of tél
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. telem teleim
2nd person sing. teled teleid
3rd person sing. tele telei
1st person plural telünk teleink
2nd person plural teletek teleitek
3rd person plural telük teleik

Derived terms

Compound words

References

  1. ^ Entry #1037 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ tél 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

  • tél 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

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