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Etymology edit

tej (milk) +‎ út (way)

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛjuːt]
  • Hyphenation: Tej‧út
  • Rhymes: -uːt

Proper noun edit

Tejút

  1. (astronomy) our galaxy that we inhabit
    Synonym: Tejútrendszer
  2. (astronomy) Milky Way, a broad band of diffuse white light, visible in the night sky; our view of the galaxy that we inhabit

Usage notes edit

Some astronomical and geographical terms have both a lowercase (common noun) and a capitalized (proper noun) form. For föld (ground, soil)―​Föld (Earth), hold (moon, satellite)―​Hold (the Moon), and nap (day; sun)―​Nap (the Sun), the lowercase forms are used in the everyday sense and the capitalized forms in the astronomical sense. In other similar pairs, the former refers to generic sense, and the latter specifies the best known referent: egyenlítő (equator)―​Egyenlítő (Equator), naprendszer (solar system, planetary system)―​Naprendszer (Solar System), and tejút (galaxy, literally “milky way”, but galaxis and galaktika are more common)―​Tejút (Milky Way).[1][2][3][4]

Declension edit

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative Tejút
accusative Tejutat
dative Tejútnak
instrumental Tejúttal
causal-final Tejútért
translative Tejúttá
terminative Tejútig
essive-formal Tejútként
essive-modal
inessive Tejútban
superessive Tejúton
adessive Tejútnál
illative Tejútba
sublative Tejútra
allative Tejúthoz
elative Tejútból
delative Tejútról
ablative Tejúttól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
Tejúté
non-attributive
possessive - plural
Tejútéi
Possessive forms of Tejút
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Tejutam
2nd person sing. Tejutad
3rd person sing. Tejútja
1st person plural Tejutunk
2nd person plural Tejutatok
3rd person plural Tejútjuk

Further reading edit

  • tejút 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