pöfeteg

Hungarian

Etymology

First 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

  • IPA(key): [ˈpøfɛtɛɡ]
  • Hyphenation: pö‧fe‧teg

Noun

pöfeteg (plural pöfetegek)

  1. puffball (any of various fungi that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
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
Possessive forms of pöfeteg
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

  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
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