tönk
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tönk (chopping stump)
Hungarian
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps from tő.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
tönk (plural tönkök)
- stump, treestump (the remains of a tree that has been cut off)
- chopping stump (a large section of a tree trunk used for splitting hardwood)
- stipe, stalk, stem (the stem of a mushroom that supports its cap)
- (idiomatic) financial collapse, bankruptcy
- a tönk szélén áll ― to be on the verge of bankruptcy
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -ö-, front rounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | tönk | tönkök |
| accusative | tönköt | tönköket |
| dative | tönknek | tönköknek |
| instrumental | tönkkel | tönkökkel |
| causal-final | tönkért | tönkökért |
| translative | tönkké | tönkökké |
| terminative | tönkig | tönkökig |
| essive-formal | tönkként | tönkökként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | tönkben | tönkökben |
| superessive | tönkön | tönkökön |
| adessive | tönknél | tönköknél |
| illative | tönkbe | tönkökbe |
| sublative | tönkre | tönkökre |
| allative | tönkhöz | tönkökhöz |
| elative | tönkből | tönkökből |
| delative | tönkről | tönkökről |
| ablative | tönktől | tönköktől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
tönké | tönköké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
tönkéi | tönkökéi |
| Possessive forms of tönk | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | tönköm | tönkjeim |
| 2nd person sing. | tönköd | tönkjeid |
| 3rd person sing. | tönkje | tönkjei |
| 1st person plural | tönkünk | tönkjeink |
| 2nd person plural | tönkötök | tönkjeitek |
| 3rd person plural | tönkjük | tönkjeik |
References
- ^ tönk 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
- tönk 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
Limburgish
Etymology
From the verb tönke, from dönke, dunke (“to appear, seem”).
Verb
tönk
- Form of obsolete verb tönke (“to be wrong with”). Only one form is still in use today:
- Waat tönk tich?
- What's wrong with you?