dajka

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Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from a Slavic language. Compare Bulgarian дойка (dojka, nurse, wet-nurse), Serbo-Croatian dojka (breast), Slovak dojka (wet-nurse, nurse cow), from Proto-Slavic *dojiti (to suckle, to milk).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈdɒjkɒ]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: daj‧ka

Noun

dajka (plural dajkák)

  1. nurse, nanny, fostress (a woman who takes care of other people’s young in a day nursery)
    Synonyms: dada, dadus
  2. wet-nurse

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative dajka dajkák
accusative dajkát dajkákat
dative dajkának dajkáknak
instrumental dajkával dajkákkal
causal-final dajkáért dajkákért
translative dajkává dajkákká
terminative dajkáig dajkákig
essive-formal dajkaként dajkákként
essive-modal dajkául dajkákul
inessive dajkában dajkákban
superessive dajkán dajkákon
adessive dajkánál dajkáknál
illative dajkába dajkákba
sublative dajkára dajkákra
allative dajkához dajkákhoz
elative dajkából dajkákból
delative dajkáról dajkákról
ablative dajkától dajkáktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
dajkáé dajkáké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
dajkáéi dajkákéi
Possessive forms of dajka
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. dajkám dajkáim
2nd person sing. dajkád dajkáid
3rd person sing. dajkája dajkái
1st person plural dajkánk dajkáink
2nd person plural dajkátok dajkáitok
3rd person plural dajkájuk dajkáik

Derived terms

Compound words

References

  1. ^ dajka 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.)