zönge
Hungarian
Etymology
Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries. From a variant of the verb zeng (“to ring, resound”), with the archaic adjective-forming suffix -e, here used to create a noun.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈzøŋɡɛ]
- Hyphenation: zön‧ge
- Rhymes: -ɡɛ
Noun
zönge (usually uncountable, plural zöngék)
- (archaic) the vibration of a sound
- (archaic) musical note/tone
- (phonetics, phonology) voicing (a classification of speech sounds, associated with vocal cord vibration)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | zönge | zöngék |
| accusative | zöngét | zöngéket |
| dative | zöngének | zöngéknek |
| instrumental | zöngével | zöngékkel |
| causal-final | zöngéért | zöngékért |
| translative | zöngévé | zöngékké |
| terminative | zöngéig | zöngékig |
| essive-formal | zöngeként | zöngékként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | zöngében | zöngékben |
| superessive | zöngén | zöngéken |
| adessive | zöngénél | zöngéknél |
| illative | zöngébe | zöngékbe |
| sublative | zöngére | zöngékre |
| allative | zöngéhez | zöngékhez |
| elative | zöngéből | zöngékből |
| delative | zöngéről | zöngékről |
| ablative | zöngétől | zöngéktől |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
zöngéé | zöngéké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
zöngééi | zöngékéi |
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person sing. | zöngém | zöngéim |
| 2nd person sing. | zöngéd | zöngéid |
| 3rd person sing. | zöngéje | zöngéi |
| 1st person plural | zöngénk | zöngéink |
| 2nd person plural | zöngétek | zöngéitek |
| 3rd person plural | zöngéjük | zöngéik |
Derived terms
- zöngés → zöngésedik, zöngésít, zöngésség
- zöngétlen → zöngétlenít, zöngétlenedik, zöngétlenség
References
- ^ zönge in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
Further reading
- zönge in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.