See also: urge, urgé, and urĝe

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

Probably borrowed from an Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries).[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈyrɡɛ]
  • Hyphenation: ür‧ge
  • Rhymes: -ɡɛ

Noun edit

ürge (plural ürgék)

  1. suslik, ground squirrel ('Spermophillus citellus', a small burrowing furry rodent)
  2. (colloquial) guy, bloke, dude
    Synonyms: férfi, fickó, pasi, pasas, hapsi, manus, manusz, fószer, arc, pofa

Declension edit

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative ürge ürgék
accusative ürgét ürgéket
dative ürgének ürgéknek
instrumental ürgével ürgékkel
causal-final ürgéért ürgékért
translative ürgévé ürgékké
terminative ürgéig ürgékig
essive-formal ürgeként ürgékként
essive-modal
inessive ürgében ürgékben
superessive ürgén ürgéken
adessive ürgénél ürgéknél
illative ürgébe ürgékbe
sublative ürgére ürgékre
allative ürgéhez ürgékhez
elative ürgéből ürgékből
delative ürgéről ürgékről
ablative ürgétől ürgéktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
ürgéé ürgéké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
ürgééi ürgékéi
Possessive forms of ürge
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. ürgém ürgéim
2nd person sing. ürgéd ürgéid
3rd person sing. ürgéje ürgéi
1st person plural ürgénk ürgéink
2nd person plural ürgétek ürgéitek
3rd person plural ürgéjük ürgéik

References edit

  1. ^ ürge 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

  • ürge 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