pöfeteg
Hungarian
editEtymology
editFirst attested around 1525. From an otherwise unattested stem + -eteg (“noun-forming suffix”). The stem is the same as of the verb püffed (“to swell”). The name refers to the mushroom's swollen, puffed-up appearance.[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpöfeteg (plural pöfetegek)
- puffball (any of various fungi that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies)
Declension
editInflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | pöfeteg | pöfetegek |
accusative | pöfeteget | pöfetegeket |
dative | pöfetegnek | pöfetegeknek |
instrumental | pöfeteggel | pöfetegekkel |
causal-final | pöfetegért | pöfetegekért |
translative | pöfeteggé | pöfetegekké |
terminative | pöfetegig | pöfetegekig |
essive-formal | pöfetegként | pöfetegekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | pöfetegben | pöfetegekben |
superessive | pöfetegen | pöfetegeken |
adessive | pöfetegnél | pöfetegeknél |
illative | pöfetegbe | pöfetegekbe |
sublative | pöfetegre | pöfetegekre |
allative | pöfeteghez | pöfetegekhez |
elative | pöfetegből | pöfetegekből |
delative | pöfetegről | pöfetegekről |
ablative | pöfetegtől | pöfetegektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
pöfetegé | pöfetegeké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
pöfetegéi | pöfetegekéi |
Possessive forms of pöfeteg | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | pöfetegem | pöfetegeim |
2nd person sing. | pöfeteged | pöfetegeid |
3rd person sing. | pöfetege | pöfetegei |
1st person plural | pöfetegünk | pöfetegeink |
2nd person plural | pöfetegetek | pöfetegeitek |
3rd person plural | pöfetegük | pöfetegeik |
References
edit- ^ pöfeteg 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- pöfeteg 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