sulyok

See also: súlyok

Hungarian

Etymology

Of debated origin:

1. The diminutive of súly (“weight”).
2. A Serbo-Croatian or Slovenian loanword.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃujok]
• Hyphenation: su‧lyok
• Rhymes: -ok

Noun

sulyok (plural sulykok)

1. (dated, dialectal) beater, battledore, dolly, beetle, laundry bat, washing paddle (a thick, rectangle wooden utensil with a short handle used in the old days for hammering laundry to push out the dirt)

   Synonyms: mángorló, sulykolófa

2. (dialectal) mallet (a wooden hand tool with a handle resembling a hammer used for crushing or beating something into the ground)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	sulyok	sulykok
accusative	sulykot	sulykokat
dative	sulyoknak	sulykoknak
instrumental	sulyokkal	sulykokkal
causal-final	sulyokért	sulykokért
translative	sulyokká	sulykokká
terminative	sulyokig	sulykokig
essive-formal	sulyokként	sulykokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	sulyokban	sulykokban
superessive	sulykon	sulykokon
adessive	sulyoknál	sulykoknál
illative	sulyokba	sulykokba
sublative	sulyokra	sulykokra
allative	sulyokhoz	sulykokhoz
elative	sulyokból	sulykokból
delative	sulyokról	sulykokról
ablative	sulyoktól	sulykoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	sulyoké	sulykoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	sulyokéi	sulykokéi

Possessive forms of sulyok
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	sulykom	sulykaim
2nd person sing.	sulykod	sulykaid
3rd person sing.	sulyka	sulykai
1st person plural	sulykunk	sulykaink
2nd person plural	sulykotok	sulykaitok
3rd person plural	sulykuk	sulykaik

Derived terms

• sulykol

 

Expressions

• elveti a sulykot

 

See also

• Appendix:Hungarian words with ly

Further reading

• sulyok 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