véka

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See also: veka and veká

Hungarian

Etymology

Probably from a Slavic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare Russian ве́ко (véko, eyelid), dialectal (“basket”), from Proto-Slavic *věko (eyelid).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: vé‧ka
  • Rhymes: -kɒ

Noun

véka (plural vékák)

  1. bushel (a vessel for measuring or holding grains)
  2. bushel (an old dry measure of about 25–30 liter, three pecks, or six gallons; the amount changed region to region)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative véka vékák
accusative vékát vékákat
dative vékának vékáknak
instrumental vékával vékákkal
causal-final vékáért vékákért
translative vékává vékákká
terminative vékáig vékákig
essive-formal vékaként vékákként
essive-modal
inessive vékában vékákban
superessive vékán vékákon
adessive vékánál vékáknál
illative vékába vékákba
sublative vékára vékákra
allative vékához vékákhoz
elative vékából vékákból
delative vékáról vékákról
ablative vékától vékáktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
vékáé vékáké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
vékáéi vékákéi
Possessive forms of véka
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. vékám vékáim
2nd person sing. vékád vékáid
3rd person sing. vékája vékái
1st person plural vékánk vékáink
2nd person plural vékátok vékáitok
3rd person plural vékájuk vékáik

Derived terms

References

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

Further reading

  • véka 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