See also: hármat and härmat

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Uralic *kura (hoar frost, fine snow) + -at (noun-forming suffix).[1][2]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈhɒrmɒt]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: har‧mat
  • Rhymes: -ɒt

Noun edit

harmat (usually uncountable, plural harmatok)

  1. dew

Declension edit

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative harmat harmatok
accusative harmatot harmatokat
dative harmatnak harmatoknak
instrumental harmattal harmatokkal
causal-final harmatért harmatokért
translative harmattá harmatokká
terminative harmatig harmatokig
essive-formal harmatként harmatokként
essive-modal
inessive harmatban harmatokban
superessive harmaton harmatokon
adessive harmatnál harmatoknál
illative harmatba harmatokba
sublative harmatra harmatokra
allative harmathoz harmatokhoz
elative harmatból harmatokból
delative harmatról harmatokról
ablative harmattól harmatoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
harmaté harmatoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
harmatéi harmatokéi
Possessive forms of harmat
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. harmatom harmataim
2nd person sing. harmatod harmataid
3rd person sing. harmata harmatai
1st person plural harmatunk harmataink
2nd person plural harmatotok harmataitok
3rd person plural harmatuk harmataik

Derived terms edit

Compound words

References edit

  1. ^ Entry #417 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ harmat 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

  • harmat 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