tér

See also: ter, TER, têr, ţer, -ter, ter-, and Appendix:Variations of "ter"

Hungarian

tér (Main Square, Szentendre, Hungary)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈteːr]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: tér

Etymology 1

From Proto-Ugric *tärɜ ((open) space, room).[1][2]

Noun

tér (plural terek)

  1. square (open area in a city, town or village)
  2. (physics, mathematics) space
  3. (physics) field
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative tér terek
accusative teret tereket
dative térnek tereknek
instrumental térrel terekkel
causal-final térért terekért
translative térré terekké
terminative térig terekig
essive-formal térként terekként
essive-modal
inessive térben terekben
superessive téren tereken
adessive térnél tereknél
illative térbe terekbe
sublative térre terekre
allative térhez terekhez
elative térből terekből
delative térről terekről
ablative tértől terektől
Possessive forms of tér
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. terem tereim
2nd person sing. tered tereid
3rd person sing. tere terei
1st person plural terünk tereink
2nd person plural teretek tereitek
3rd person plural terük tereik
Derived terms
Compound words

Etymology 2

Of debated origin.

  1. From a Turkic language.
  2. Native development.

Verb

tér

  1. (archaic, except in set phrases, intransitive) to turn
    Synonyms: fordul, kanyarodik
    jobbra térto turn to the right
    más tárgyra térto change the subject
    magához térto regain consciousness, come to
    a lényegre térto get to the point
Conjugation
Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

Anagrams

References

  1. Entry #1860 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  2. 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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