Hungarian

edit

Etymology

edit

From *könyör (to ask someone; to feel pity for someone) + -ög (frequentative suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

edit
  • IPA(key): [ˈkøɲørøɡ]
  • Hyphenation: kö‧nyö‧rög
  • Rhymes: -øɡ

Verb

edit

könyörög

  1. (intransitive) to beg, to implore, to supplicate (to a deity: -hoz/-hez/-höz, to a person: -nak/-nek)

Usage notes

edit

The verb form könyörgöm (I beg of you) also exists as a hypercorrection of könyörgök, and even though it is proscribed by most language authorities as grammatically incorrect, in actual usage it is heard more often than the correct form, to the point where some linguists now advocate in favor of it.[2]

Conjugation

edit

Derived terms

edit

(With verbal prefixes):

References

edit
  1. ^ könyörög 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.)
  2. ^ Nádasdy, Ádám: Hol a rosszaság mostanában? in Magyar Narancs vol. 12, issue 31, Magyarnarancs.hu Lapkiadó Kft., 2000

Further reading

edit