See also: öröm and őröm

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

From or (peak; a variant form of orr (nose)) +‎ -m (noun-forming suffix), from Proto-Uralic *wëre (mountain).[1][2]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈorom]
  • Hyphenation: orom
  • Rhymes: -om

Noun edit

orom (plural ormok)

  1. (literary) promontory, summit, peak

Declension edit

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative orom ormok
accusative ormot ormokat
dative oromnak ormoknak
instrumental orommal ormokkal
causal-final oromért ormokért
translative orommá ormokká
terminative oromig ormokig
essive-formal oromként ormokként
essive-modal
inessive oromban ormokban
superessive ormon ormokon
adessive oromnál ormoknál
illative oromba ormokba
sublative oromra ormokra
allative oromhoz ormokhoz
elative oromból ormokból
delative oromról ormokról
ablative oromtól ormoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
oromé ormoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
oroméi ormokéi
Possessive forms of orom
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. ormom ormaim
2nd person sing. ormod ormaid
3rd person sing. orma ormai
1st person plural ormunk ormaink
2nd person plural ormotok ormaitok
3rd person plural ormuk ormaik

References edit

  1. ^ Entry #1144 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ orom 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 edit

  • orom 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