See also: hajnál and Hajnal

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Uralic *koje. Cognates include Finnish koi, Estonian koit and Erzya ки (ki).[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈhɒjnɒl]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: haj‧nal
  • Rhymes: -ɒl

Noun edit

hajnal (plural hajnalok)

  1. dawn

Usage notes edit

Adverbs of temporal nouns     (see also: Appendix:Hungarian words of time)
no suffix (the noun
can act as an adverb
)
nappal (daytime), reggel (early morning), délelőtt (late morning), délután (afternoon), este (evening), éjjel / éjszaka (night), and vasárnap (Sunday)
-kor (at) pirkadat / virradat (dawn), napkelte (sunrise), napnyugta (sunset), alkonyat (dusk), szürkület (twilight), éjfél (midnight), hours and minutes, and the names of holidays (húsvét (Easter) etc.)
-ban/-ben (in) dél (noon), hajnal (daybreak), names of months (januárdecember) and hónap (month), évszak (season), év (year) and specific years, évtized (decade) and longer periods
-n/-on/-en/-ön (on) days of the week (hétfőszombat) except Sunday, days of the month (elseje (1st), másodika (2nd) etc.), nap (day), hét (week), nyár (summer), and tél (winter)
-val/-vel (with, assimilated: -szal/-szel) tavasz (spring), ősz (autumn, fall)

Declension edit

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative hajnal hajnalok
accusative hajnalt hajnalokat
dative hajnalnak hajnaloknak
instrumental hajnallal hajnalokkal
causal-final hajnalért hajnalokért
translative hajnallá hajnalokká
terminative hajnalig hajnalokig
essive-formal hajnalként hajnalokként
essive-modal
inessive hajnalban hajnalokban
superessive hajnalon hajnalokon
adessive hajnalnál hajnaloknál
illative hajnalba hajnalokba
sublative hajnalra hajnalokra
allative hajnalhoz hajnalokhoz
elative hajnalból hajnalokból
delative hajnalról hajnalokról
ablative hajnaltól hajnaloktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
hajnalé hajnaloké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
hajnaléi hajnalokéi
Possessive forms of hajnal
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. hajnalom hajnalaim
2nd person sing. hajnalod hajnalaid
3rd person sing. hajnala hajnalai
1st person plural hajnalunk hajnalaink
2nd person plural hajnalotok hajnalaitok
3rd person plural hajnaluk hajnalaik

Derived terms edit

Expressions

References edit

  1. ^ Entry #330 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

Further reading edit

  • hajnal 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