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tél

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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tél m (plural téls)

  1. telephone number: clipping of numéro de téléphone
  2. telephone: clipping of téléphone

Hungarian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Uralic *tälwä (“winter”). Cognates include Southern Mansi тӓ̄л (tǟl), Northern Mansi та̄л (tāl), Moksha тяла (täla), Erzya теле (tele), Finnish talvi and Estonian talv.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈteːl]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: tél
  • Rhymes: -eːl

Noun

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tél (plural telek)

  1. winter
    Hypernym: évszak
    Coordinate terms: tavasz, nyár, ősz

Usage notes

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Adverbs of temporal nouns     (see also: Appendix:Hungarian words of time)
no suffix (the noun
can act as an adverb
)
nappal (“daytime”), reggel (“early morning”), délelőtt (“late morning”), délután (“afternoon”), este (“evening”), éjjel / éjszaka (“night”), and vasárnap (“Sunday”)
-kor (“at”) pirkadat / virradat (“dawn”), napkelte (“sunrise”), napnyugta (“sunset”), alkonyat (“dusk”), szürkület (“twilight”), éjfél (“midnight”), hours and minutes, and the names of holidays (húsvét (“Easter”) etc.)
-ban/-ben (“in”) dél (“noon”), hajnal (“daybreak”), names of months (január–december) and hónap (“month”), évszak (“season”), év (“year”) and specific years, évtized (“decade”) and longer periods
-n/-on/-en/-ön (“on”) days of the week (hétfő–szombat) except Sunday, days of the month (elseje (“1st”), másodika (“2nd”) etc.), nap (“day”), hét (“week”), nyár (“summer”), and tél (“winter”)
-val/-vel (“with”, assimilated: -szal/-szel) tavasz (“spring”), ősz (“autumn, fall”)

Declension

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Possessive forms of tél
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. telem teleim
2nd person sing. teled teleid
3rd person sing. tele telei
1st person plural telünk teleink
2nd person plural teletek teleitek
3rd person plural telük teleik

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Entry #1037 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ tél 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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  • tél 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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Wappo

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Noun

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tél

  1. nest, bird's nest

References

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  • Sawyer, Jesse O. 1965. English-Wappo Vocabulary. University of California Publications in Linguistics, volume 43