féreg
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Hungarian
Etymology
From Proto-Finno-Ugric *perkɜ or *perkkɜ (“worm”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
Noun
féreg (plural férgek)
- worm, maggot
- (zoology) worm, namely a member of Annelida, Platyhelminthes, Platyzoa, Sipunculida, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Nemathelminthes, or Acanthocephala (any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, all having the element -férgek in their Hungarian names)
- (folksy) parasite, vermin, pest, insect, bug, bedbug, chinch
- (archaic) wolf or another large beast of prey
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | féreg | férgek |
| accusative | férget | férgeket |
| dative | féregnek | férgeknek |
| instrumental | féreggel | férgekkel |
| causal-final | féregért | férgekért |
| translative | féreggé | férgekké |
| terminative | féregig | férgekig |
| essive-formal | féregként | férgekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | féregben | férgekben |
| superessive | férgen | férgeken |
| adessive | féregnél | férgeknél |
| illative | féregbe | férgekbe |
| sublative | féregre | férgekre |
| allative | féreghez | férgekhez |
| elative | féregből | férgekből |
| delative | féregről | férgekről |
| ablative | féregtől | férgektől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
féregé | férgeké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
féregéi | férgekéi |
| Possessive forms of féreg | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | férgem | férgeim |
| 2nd person sing. | férged | férgeid |
| 3rd person sing. | férge | férgei |
| 1st person plural | férgünk | férgeink |
| 2nd person plural | férgetek | férgeitek |
| 3rd person plural | férgük | férgeik |
Derived terms
Compound words
Expressions
References
- ^ Entry #748 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- ^ féreg 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
- féreg 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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- hu:Worms