fiú
HungarianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- fi (archaic)
EtymologyEdit
From Old Hungarian fioɣ or fió with the original stem fi akin to Proto-Uralic *pojka (“son, boy”) + -ú (“archaic diminutive suffix”) (also attested as -oɣ, -ó in Old Hungarian).[1] Cognates include Mansi пыг (pyg, “son, boy”), Udmurt пи (pi, “son, boy”), Komi-Zyrian пи (pi, “son, boy”), Erzya пиё (pijo, “grandson”) and Finnish poika. See also faj. Unrelated to Romanian fiu.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
fiú (plural fiúk)
- boy
- Synonym: srác (informal)
- son
- Synonym: fiúgyermek
- az apa és a fia ― the father and his son
- (colloquial) boyfriend
Usage notesEdit
- In terms of its possessive forms, fia is used in the sense of one’s son, while one’s boyfriend is fiúja. Their other possessive forms consistently differ in the same way: the ’son’ with the irregular forms and the ’boyfriend’ with the regular forms.
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | fiú | fiúk |
| accusative | fiút | fiúkat |
| dative | fiúnak | fiúknak |
| instrumental | fiúval | fiúkkal |
| causal-final | fiúért | fiúkért |
| translative | fiúvá | fiúkká |
| terminative | fiúig | fiúkig |
| essive-formal | fiúként | fiúkként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | fiúban | fiúkban |
| superessive | fiún | fiúkon |
| adessive | fiúnál | fiúknál |
| illative | fiúba | fiúkba |
| sublative | fiúra | fiúkra |
| allative | fiúhoz | fiúkhoz |
| elative | fiúból | fiúkból |
| delative | fiúról | fiúkról |
| ablative | fiútól | fiúktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
fiúé | fiúké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
fiúéi | fiúkéi |
- in the sense of 'son':
| Possessive forms of fiú | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | fiam | fiaim |
| 2nd person sing. | fiad | fiaid |
| 3rd person sing. | fia | fiai |
| 1st person plural | fiunk | fiaink |
| 2nd person plural | fiatok | fiaitok |
| 3rd person plural | fiuk | fiaik |
- otherwise (e.g. 'boyfriend'):
| Possessive forms of fiú | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | fiúm | fiúim |
| 2nd person sing. | fiúd | fiúid |
| 3rd person sing. | fiúja | fiúi |
| 1st person plural | fiúnk | fiúink |
| 2nd person plural | fiútok | fiúitok |
| 3rd person plural | fiújuk | fiúik |
Derived termsEdit
Compound words
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Entry #785 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.
Further readingEdit
- fiú 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
IrishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Irish fíu, from Proto-Celtic *wesus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wésus.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
fiú (indeclinable)
- (used with is) worth
- Ní fiú pingin é.
- It isn’t worth a penny.
- (used with is and le) worth it, worthwhile
- is fiú liom ― it’s worth it to me
- (used with the genitive of a following definite noun) even
- Níl fiú an léine aige.
- He hasn’t even a shirt.
- gan fiú na mbróg ― without even shoes
Related termsEdit
AdverbEdit
fiú
- even
- Níl sé leathlán fiú.
- It is not even half full.
Derived termsEdit
MutationEdit
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| fiú | fhiú | bhfiú |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further readingEdit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “fiú”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 74
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 30
Old IrishEdit
AdjectiveEdit
fiú
- Alternative spelling of fíu