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See also: борз
Hungarian
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Meles_meles_MHNT.jpg/220px-Meles_meles_MHNT.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from a Turkic language. Compare Karakhanid بُرْسْمُكْ (borsmuk), Chagatai بورسوق (borsuq), Turkish porsuk, Azerbaijani porsuq, Kazakh борсық (borsyq), Bashkir борһыҡ (borhıq), Uyghur بورسۇق (borsuq) and Chuvash пурӑш (purăš). Ultimately, from Proto-Turkic *borsuk (“badger”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]borz (plural borzok)
- badger, brock: common name for European badger, Eurasian badger (Meles meles)
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | borz | borzok |
accusative | borzot | borzokat |
dative | borznak | borzoknak |
instrumental | borzzal | borzokkal |
causal-final | borzért | borzokért |
translative | borzzá | borzokká |
terminative | borzig | borzokig |
essive-formal | borzként | borzokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | borzban | borzokban |
superessive | borzon | borzokon |
adessive | borznál | borzoknál |
illative | borzba | borzokba |
sublative | borzra | borzokra |
allative | borzhoz | borzokhoz |
elative | borzból | borzokból |
delative | borzról | borzokról |
ablative | borztól | borzoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
borzé | borzoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
borzéi | borzokéi |
Possessive forms of borz | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | borzom | borzaim |
2nd person sing. | borzod | borzaid |
3rd person sing. | borza | borzai |
1st person plural | borzunk | borzaink |
2nd person plural | borzotok | borzaitok |
3rd person plural | borzuk | borzaik |
Derived terms
[edit]Compound words
Expressions
References
[edit]- ^ borz 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, page 90, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “borsuk, borsmuk”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 368-369
Further reading
[edit]- borz 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
- borz in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)