ük

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Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *ewkkɜ (old woman; grandmother). Cognates include Finnish eukko.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ük
  • Rhymes: -yk

Noun

ük (plural ükök)

  1. distant ancestor, great-great (mainly used in compound words such as ükapa (great-great-grandfather))

Declension

Inflection (stem in -ö-, front rounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative ük ükök
accusative üköt üköket
dative üknek üköknek
instrumental ükkel ükökkel
causal-final ükért ükökért
translative ükké ükökké
terminative ükig ükökig
essive-formal ükként ükökként
essive-modal
inessive ükben ükökben
superessive ükön ükökön
adessive üknél üköknél
illative ükbe ükökbe
sublative ükre ükökre
allative ükhöz ükökhöz
elative ükből ükökből
delative ükről ükökről
ablative üktől üköktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
üké üköké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
ükéi ükökéi
Possessive forms of ük
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. üköm ükeim, ükjeim
2nd person sing. üköd ükeid, ükjeid
3rd person sing. üke, ükje ükei, ükjei
1st person plural ükünk ükeink, ükjeink
2nd person plural ükötök ükeitek, ükjeitek
3rd person plural ükük, ükjük ükeik, ükjeik

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Entry #139 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ ük 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

  • ük 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