hegy

Hungarian

Etymology

Disputed, possibly from Proto-Uralic. Two different comparisons have been proposed, both with their own problems:

Abondolo (1992)[3] considers the latter comparison "slightly less unconvincing" (and considers hely (“place”) to be the Hungarian cognate to Samoyedic instead). Koivulehto (2001)[4] however has etymologized the Finnic and Samic words for 'point' as early loans from Indo-European, unrelated to Hungarian.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈhɛɟ]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: hegy

Noun

hegy (plural hegyek)

  1. mountain
  2. point (of pencil, knife), tip (of finger, tongue, nose)

Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative hegy hegyek
accusative hegyet hegyeket
dative hegynek hegyeknek
instrumental heggyel hegyekkel
causal-final hegyért hegyekért
translative heggyé hegyekké
terminative hegyig hegyekig
essive-formal hegyként hegyekként
essive-modal — —
inessive hegyben hegyekben
superessive hegyen hegyeken
adessive hegynél hegyeknél
illative hegybe hegyekbe
sublative hegyre hegyekre
allative hegyhez hegyekhez
elative hegyből hegyekből
delative hegyről hegyekről
ablative hegytől hegyektől
Possessive forms of hegy
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. hegyem hegyeim
2nd person sing. hegyed hegyeid
3rd person sing. hegye hegyei
1st person plural hegyünk hegyeink
2nd person plural hegyetek hegyeitek
3rd person plural hegyük hegyeik

Derived terms

(Compound words, mountain):

(Compound words, tip):

(Expressions):

References
  1. Entry #220 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  2. Entry #210 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  3. Abondolo, Daniel. 1992. "Locus meliori datus: Hungarian hegy, hős, ős, tőgy, völgy, vas, hegy, hely. — Rédei-Festschrift, pp. 23–28. Wien/Budapest.
  4. Koivulehto, Jorma. 2001. "The Earliest Contacts Between Indo-European and Uralic Speakers." — Christian Carpela, Asko Parpola and Petteri Koskikallio (eds.), Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European, pp. 235–263. Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia 242.
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