messze
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Hungarian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Finno-Ugric *mećä (“edge, side of something”). Cognates include Estonian mets (“forest”) and Sami miehćse (“far”).[1][2]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
messze (comparative messzebb, superlative legmesszebb)
Derived terms[edit]
Expressions
Related terms[edit]
Adjective[edit]
messze (comparative messzebb, superlative legmesszebb)
Declension[edit]
It is only used attributively, so it cannot have suffixes.
References[edit]
- ^ Entry #532 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- ^ messze in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further reading[edit]
- messze in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
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