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lég

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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Shortened from old Hungarian levegő ég (air) (attested in 1636). First attested in 1813. Created by Ferenc Kazinczy during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈleːɡ]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -eːɡ

Noun

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lég (usually uncountable, plural légek or legek)

  1. air, atmosphere
  2. air-, aerial (in compound words)

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative lég légek
accusative léget légeket
dative légnek légeknek
instrumental léggel légekkel
causal-final légért légekért
translative léggé légekké
terminative légig légekig
essive-formal légként légekként
essive-modal
inessive légben légekben
superessive légen légeken
adessive légnél légeknél
illative légbe légekbe
sublative légre légekre
allative léghez légekhez
elative légből légekből
delative légről légekről
ablative légtől légektől
non-attributive
possessive – singular
légé légeké
non-attributive
possessive – plural
légéi légekéi
Possessive forms of lég
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. légem
2nd person sing. léged
3rd person sing. lége
1st person plural légünk
2nd person plural légetek
3rd person plural légük

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Possessive forms of lég
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. legem
2nd person sing. leged
3rd person sing. lege
1st person plural legünk
2nd person plural legetek
3rd person plural legük

Derived terms

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Compound words with this term at the beginning

References

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  1. ^ lég 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.)

Further reading

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  • lég in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Anagrams

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Old Irish

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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·lég

  1. third-person singular preterite conjunct of légaid

Mutation

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Mutation of lég
radical lenition nasalization
lég
also llég in h-prothesis environments
lég
pronounced with /lʲ-/
lég
also llég

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.