Hungarian edit

 Vajk on Hungarian Wikipedia
 
The birth of Vajk in the Chronicon Pictum

Etymology edit

Probably from a Turkic language. According to Gy. Neméth, from Proto-Turkic *bāy (rich, noble) + Hungarian diminutive suffix -k. The diminutive suffix -k is also Turkic.[1] Compare Turkish bay, Azerbaijani bay, Bashkir бай (bay), Kazakh бай (bai), Kyrgyz бай (bay), Tatar бай (bay), Turkmen baý.[2] In Karakhanid, Bay was translated in Arabic as "distinguised" and as "a man of distinction" in Ottoman Turkish. Alternatively, according to László Rásonyi, the original form was Bayïq meaning "true, reliable" (as reported by Al Kashgari).

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Vajk

  1. a male given name
  2. The original pagan name of Stephen I (c. 975 – 1038), the first King of Hungary.

Declension edit

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative Vajk Vajkok
accusative Vajkot Vajkokat
dative Vajknak Vajkoknak
instrumental Vajkkal Vajkokkal
causal-final Vajkért Vajkokért
translative Vajkká Vajkokká
terminative Vajkig Vajkokig
essive-formal Vajkként Vajkokként
essive-modal
inessive Vajkban Vajkokban
superessive Vajkon Vajkokon
adessive Vajknál Vajkoknál
illative Vajkba Vajkokba
sublative Vajkra Vajkokra
allative Vajkhoz Vajkokhoz
elative Vajkból Vajkokból
delative Vajkról Vajkokról
ablative Vajktól Vajkoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
Vajké Vajkoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
Vajkéi Vajkokéi
Possessive forms of Vajk
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Vajkom Vajkjaim
2nd person sing. Vajkod Vajkjaid
3rd person sing. Vajkja Vajkjai
1st person plural Vajkunk Vajkjaink
2nd person plural Vajkotok Vajkjaitok
3rd person plural Vajkjuk Vajkjaik

References edit

  1. ^ Heritage of Scribes: The Relation of Rovas Scripts to Eurasian Writing Systems, p. 178
  2. ^ Németh Gy., A honfoglaló magyarság kiakalakulása, Budapest 1930, pp. 293 - 294