nagybátya

nagy +‎ bátya

• IPA^(key): [ˈnɒɟbaːcɒ]
• Hyphenation: nagy‧bá‧tya
• Rhymes: -cɒ

nagybátya (plural nagybátyák)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of nagybáty (“uncle, the brother of someone's mother or father”)

   Synonyms: nagybáty, nagybácsi, bácsika, nagybácsika

Similarly to the case of bátya (“elder brother”, dated), suffixed forms of nagybátya have been reinterpreted (reanalyzed) as having the stem nagybáty (compare báty, currently standard), so the latter forms (nagybáty and báty) are the usual base forms today. Nevertheless, relationship terms are normally used in Hungarian with possessive suffixes (see the second chart above).

• báty, bátya

• nagybátya 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