-lan
See also: Appendix:Variations of "lan"
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
Probably a compound suffix from al (“past, over”) + -an (adverb-forming suffix) meaning past a certain time, space or number.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Suffix edit
-lan
- (adverb-forming suffix, rare, archaic) Usually added to words ending in the terminative case suffix -ig (“until, till, up to”) and it means the inclusion of the mentioned boundary (not just up to the boundary).
- életfogytig + -lan → életfogytiglan
- Az egész falu leégett az utolsó háziglan. ― The entire village burned down to the last house. (No house was spared in the fire.)
Usage notes edit
- (adverb-forming suffix) Variants:
- -lan is added to back-vowel words
- -len is added to front-vowel words
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ -lan in Czuczor, Gergely and János Fogarasi: A magyar nyelv szótára (’A Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Pest: Emich Gusztáv Magyar Akadémiai Nyomdász, 1862–1874.
Turkish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From part of Ottoman Turkish ـلنمق (lanmak, passive infinitive suffix after back vowels). Analyzable as -la (forms verbs from nouns) + -n (reflexive marker).
Suffix edit
| preceding vowel | |
|---|---|
| A / I / O / U | E / İ / Ö / Ü |
| -lan | -len |
-lan
- Form of -len after the vowels A / I / O / U.
- hasta (“ill, sick”) + -lan → hastalanmak (“to get sick”)
- kaygı (“anxiety”) + -lan → kaygılanmak (“to get anxious”)
Derived terms edit
See -len.
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *-lan.
Suffix edit
-lan
- Noun-forming suffix frequently denoting a "wild and predatory animal".