madár

See also: madar, Madar, Maďar, Mađar, mádar, and mãdar

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

No generally accepted origin.^[1] Derivation as an old compound *muntVrV ← *muna-tojV-rV, 'egg-laying one' (compare mony (“egg”) and tojik (“to lay eggs”)), has been proposed.^[2]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [ˈmɒdaːr]
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Rhymes: -aːr
Hyphenation: ma‧dár

Noun edit

madár (plural madarak)

bird, fowl

Declension edit

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	madár	madarak
accusative	madarat	madarakat
dative	madárnak	madaraknak
instrumental	madárral	madarakkal
causal-final	madárért	madarakért
translative	madárrá	madarakká
terminative	madárig	madarakig
essive-formal	madárként	madarakként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	madárban	madarakban
superessive	madáron	madarakon
adessive	madárnál	madaraknál
illative	madárba	madarakba
sublative	madárra	madarakra
allative	madárhoz	madarakhoz
elative	madárból	madarakból
delative	madárról	madarakról
ablative	madártól	madaraktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	madáré	madaraké
non-attributive possessive - plural	madáréi	madarakéi

Possessive forms of madár
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	madaram	madaraim
2nd person sing.	madarad	madaraid
3rd person sing.	madara	madarai
1st person plural	madarunk	madaraink
2nd person plural	madaratok	madaraitok
3rd person plural	madaruk	madaraik

Derived terms edit

Compound words with this term at the beginning

Compound words with this term at the end

Expressions

References edit

^ madár 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.)
^ Abondolo, Daniel. 2007. "Phonosemantic subsets in the lexicon: Hungarian avian nomenclature and l'arbitraire du signe". Central Europe 5/1, 3–23.