Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

From *könyör (to ask someone; to feel pity for someone) + -ög (frequentative suffix).[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈkøɲørøɡ]
  • Hyphenation: kö‧nyö‧rög
  • Rhymes: -øɡ

Verb edit

könyörög

  1. (intransitive) to beg, to implore, to supplicate (to a deity: -hoz/-hez/-höz, to a person: -nak/-nek)

Usage notes edit

The verb form könyörgöm (I beg of you) also exists as a hypercorrection of könyörgök, and even though it is proscribed by most language authorities as grammatically incorrect, in actual usage it is heard more often than the correct form, to the point where some linguists now advocate in favor of it.[2]

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

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References edit

  1. ^ könyörög 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.)
  2. ^ Nádasdy, Ádám: Hol a rosszaság mostanában? in Magyar Narancs vol. 12, issue 31, Magyarnarancs.hu Lapkiadó Kft., 2000

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