krumpli

Hungarian

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Etymology

Borrowed from Austrian German Grundbirne (literally “ground pear”), more specifically from Bavarian grumper, krumbeer, krumpir. First attested in 1768.^[1]^[2] Suffixed with -i to resolve the word-final consonant cluster, compare cetli from Bavarian zettl or German Zettel (/⁠ˈt͡sɛtl̩⁠/) etc.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈkrumpli]
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -li
Hyphenation: krump‧li

Noun

krumpli (countable and uncountable, plural krumplik)

(informal) potato (the edible starchy tuber of the plant species Solanum tuberosum)
Synonym: (formal) burgonya
potato (the plant that produces this tuber)
(figuratively, humorous) lemon (a defective, malfunctioning, worthless wristwatch)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	krumpli	krumplik
accusative	krumplit	krumplikat
dative	krumplinak	krumpliknak
instrumental	krumplival	krumplikkal
causal-final	krumpliért	krumplikért
translative	krumplivá	krumplikká
terminative	krumpliig	krumplikig
essive-formal	krumpliként	krumplikként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	krumpliban	krumplikban
superessive	krumplin	krumplikon
adessive	krumplinál	krumpliknál
illative	krumpliba	krumplikba
sublative	krumplira	krumplikra
allative	krumplihoz	krumplikhoz
elative	krumpliból	krumplikból
delative	krumpliról	krumplikról
ablative	krumplitól	krumpliktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	krumplié	krumpliké
non-attributive possessive – plural	krumpliéi	krumplikéi

Possessive forms of *krumpli*
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	krumplim	krumplijaim (or krumpliim)
2nd person sing.	krumplid	krumplijaid (or krumpliid)
3rd person sing.	krumplija	krumplijai (or krumplii)
1st person plural	krumplink	krumplijaink (or krumpliink)
2nd person plural	krumplitok	krumplijaitok (or krumpliitok)
3rd person plural	krumplijuk	krumplijaik (or krumpliik)

Derived terms

krumplis

Compound words with this term at the beginning

Compound words with this term at the end

Expressions

Descendants

→ Pannonian Rusyn: кромпля (kromplja)

References

^ krumpli in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2025.
^ krumpli 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.)