tél
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tel"
French edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
tél m (plural téls)
- telephone number: Clipping of numéro de téléphone.
- telephone: Clipping of téléphone.
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Uralic *tälwä (“winter”). Cognates include Southern Mansi тӓ̄л (tǟl), Northern Mansi та̄л (tāl), Moksha тяла (ťala), Erzya теле (ťeľe), Finnish talvi and Estonian talv.[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tél (plural telek)
Usage notes edit
| Adverbs of temporal nouns (see also: Appendix:Hungarian words of time) | |
|---|---|
| no suffix (the noun can act as an adverb) |
nappal (“daytime”), reggel (“early morning”), délelőtt (“late morning”), délután (“afternoon”), este (“evening”), éjjel / éjszaka (“night”), and vasárnap (“Sunday”) |
| -kor (“at”) | pirkadat / virradat (“dawn”), napkelte (“sunrise”), napnyugta (“sunset”), alkonyat (“dusk”), szürkület (“twilight”), éjfél (“midnight”), hours and minutes, and the names of holidays (húsvét (“Easter”) etc.) |
| -ban/-ben (“in”) | dél (“noon”), hajnal (“daybreak”), names of months (január–december) and hónap (“month”), évszak (“season”), év (“year”) and specific years, évtized (“decade”) and longer periods |
| -n/-on/-en/-ön (“on”) | days of the week (hétfő–szombat) except Sunday, days of the month (elseje (“1st”), másodika (“2nd”) etc.), nap (“day”), hét (“week”), nyár (“summer”), and tél (“winter”) |
| -val/-vel (“with”, assimilated: -szal/-szel) | tavasz (“spring”), ősz (“autumn, fall”) |
Declension edit
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | tél | telek |
| accusative | telet | teleket |
| dative | télnek | teleknek |
| instrumental | téllel | telekkel |
| causal-final | télért | telekért |
| translative | téllé | telekké |
| terminative | télig | telekig |
| essive-formal | télként | telekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | télben | telekben |
| superessive | télen | teleken |
| adessive | télnél | teleknél |
| illative | télbe | telekbe |
| sublative | télre | telekre |
| allative | télhez | telekhez |
| elative | télből | telekből |
| delative | télről | telekről |
| ablative | téltől | telektől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
télé | teleké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
téléi | telekéi |
| Possessive forms of tél | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | telem | teleim |
| 2nd person sing. | teled | teleid |
| 3rd person sing. | tele | telei |
| 1st person plural | telünk | teleink |
| 2nd person plural | teletek | teleitek |
| 3rd person plural | telük | teleik |
Derived terms edit
Compound words
References edit
- ^ Entry #1037 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- ^ tél 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
- tél 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