gyere
Hungarian
Etymology
Of unknown origin. It is used in the subjunctive mode of jön (“to come”) instead of the regular subjunctive forms. Its original form may have been jerj. The leading j- to gy- assimilation is similar to jön →gyön, a dialectal variant. For the dropping of the final j compare eper, szeder.[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
gyere
- second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of jön
- Gyere velünk! ― Come with us!
References
- ^ gyere 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.)