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nyelv

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Hungarian

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 nyelv on Hungarian Wikipedia

Etymology

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From Proto-Finno-Ugric *ńälmä.[1][2] Cognates include Northern Mansi не̄лум (nēlum, “tongue”) and Northern Sami njálbmi (“mouth”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɲɛlv]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛlv
  • Hyphenation: nyelv

Noun

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nyelv (plural nyelvek)

  1. tongue (the fleshy muscular organ in the mouth of a mammal)
  2. language (a method of interhuman communication)
  3. language, tongue (the conventional system of communication used by a particular community)
  4. language (the parlance of a particular specialist field)
    jogi nyelv ― legal language
  5. language (a particular style or manner of expression; idiom)
    vulgáris nyelv ― vulgar language
  6. (medicine, compound element) lingual
    nyelvmandula ― lingual tonsil

Declension

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Possessive forms of nyelv
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. nyelvem nyelveim
2nd person sing. nyelved nyelveid
3rd person sing. nyelve nyelvei
1st person plural nyelvünk nyelveink
2nd person plural nyelvetek nyelveitek
3rd person plural nyelvük nyelveik

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Entry #615 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ nyelv 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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  • nyelv 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.