nyereg

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Hungarian

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nyereg
nyereg (the bridge of a violin)

Etymology

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From Proto-Ugric *närkɜ (saddle).[1][2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɲɛrɛɡ]
  • Hyphenation: nye‧reg
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Noun

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nyereg (plural nyergek)

  1. saddle (a seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal)
  2. saddle (a seat on a bicycle, motorcycle, etc.)
  3. (anatomy) bridge (the upper bony ridge of the human nose)
    Synonym: orrnyereg
  4. (music) bridge (the piece, on string instruments, that supports the strings from the sounding board)
  5. (zoology) clitellum (a glandular swelling in the epidermis of some annelid worms; it secretes a viscous fluid in which the eggs are deposited)

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative nyereg nyergek
accusative nyerget nyergeket
dative nyeregnek nyergeknek
instrumental nyereggel nyergekkel
causal-final nyeregért nyergekért
translative nyereggé nyergekké
terminative nyeregig nyergekig
essive-formal nyeregként nyergekként
essive-modal
inessive nyeregben nyergekben
superessive nyergen nyergeken
adessive nyeregnél nyergeknél
illative nyeregbe nyergekbe
sublative nyeregre nyergekre
allative nyereghez nyergekhez
elative nyeregből nyergekből
delative nyeregről nyergekről
ablative nyeregtől nyergektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
nyeregé nyergeké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
nyeregéi nyergekéi
Possessive forms of nyereg
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. nyergem nyergeim
2nd person sing. nyerged nyergeid
3rd person sing. nyerge nyergei
1st person plural nyergünk nyergeink
2nd person plural nyergetek nyergeitek
3rd person plural nyergük nyergeik

Derived terms

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Compound words

References

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  1. ^ Entry #1816 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ nyereg 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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  • nyereg in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN