dajka
Hungarian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from a Slavic language. Compare Bulgarian дойка (dojka, “nurse, wet-nurse”), Serbo-Croatian dojka (“breast”), Slovak dojka (“wet-nurse, nurse cow”), from Proto-Slavic *dojiti (“to suckle, to milk”).[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdajka (plural dajkák)
- (dated) Synonym of szoptatós dajka (“wet nurse”, a woman hired to suckle another woman’s child)
- nurse, nanny, fostress (a woman who takes care of other people’s young, especially in a day nursery)
Declension
editInflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | dajka | dajkák |
accusative | dajkát | dajkákat |
dative | dajkának | dajkáknak |
instrumental | dajkával | dajkákkal |
causal-final | dajkáért | dajkákért |
translative | dajkává | dajkákká |
terminative | dajkáig | dajkákig |
essive-formal | dajkaként | dajkákként |
essive-modal | dajkául | dajkákul |
inessive | dajkában | dajkákban |
superessive | dajkán | dajkákon |
adessive | dajkánál | dajkáknál |
illative | dajkába | dajkákba |
sublative | dajkára | dajkákra |
allative | dajkához | dajkákhoz |
elative | dajkából | dajkákból |
delative | dajkáról | dajkákról |
ablative | dajkától | dajkáktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
dajkáé | dajkáké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
dajkáéi | dajkákéi |
Possessive forms of dajka | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | dajkám | dajkáim |
2nd person sing. | dajkád | dajkáid |
3rd person sing. | dajkája | dajkái |
1st person plural | dajkánk | dajkáink |
2nd person plural | dajkátok | dajkáitok |
3rd person plural | dajkájuk | dajkáik |
Derived terms
editCompound words
References
edit- ^ dajka 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- dajka 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
- dajka in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)
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