mögött

Hungarian

Alternative forms

  • megett (archaic, dialectal)

Etymology

Lexicalization of the dialectal noun mög (space behind something) + -ött (locative suffix).[1] The base word is from Proto-Finno-Ugric *miŋä (*müŋä) (space behind something). Cognates include Finnish myös.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmøɡøtː]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: mö‧gött

Postposition

mögött

  1. behind
    zárt ajtók mögöttbehind closed doors

Declension

Derived terms

Compound words
  • amögött
  • emögött
Expressions

See also

  • Appendix:Hungarian postpositions

References

  1. Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN
  2. Entry #546 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Further reading

  • mögött in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.
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