messze

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Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *mećä (“edge, side of something”). Cognates include Estonian mets (“forest”) and Sami miehćse (“far”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛsːɛ]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: mesz‧sze

Adjective

messze (comparative messzebb, superlative legmesszebb)

  1. far (distant from something; used with -tól/-től)

Antonyms

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Entry #532 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ messze 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.)
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