-só
See also: Appendix:Variations of "so"
Hungarian
Etymology
-s (adjective-forming suffix) + -ó (adjective-forming suffix). The parts cohered in the Ancient Hungarian period.[1]
Pronunciation
Suffix
-só
Usage notes
- (adjective-forming suffix) Harmonic variants:
- -só is added to back vowel words
- -ső is added to front vowel words
- The superlative form of the produced adjective is leg-…-só. The usual -bb suffix is added only in exceptional cases:
- alsó - alsóbb - legalsó - legeslegalsó
Derived terms
See also
References
- ^ -só 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.)