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világ

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Hungarian

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 világ on Hungarian Wikipedia

Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Finno-Ugric *walke (compare Finnish valkea, Estonian valge, and Northern Sami vielgat).[1] Sense 1 is a semantic loan from Slavic, which displaced the original meaning illumination. Compare Romanian lume and Old Church Slavonic свѣтъ (světŭ). First attested in the 12th c.[2][3] Doublet of virág.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈvilaːɡ]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aːɡ
  • Hyphenation: vi‧lág
  • Syllabification: vi‧lág
  • Homophone: Világ

Noun

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világ (plural világok)

  1. world
    A világ egy falu. ― The world is a village.
  2. (obsolete or regional) illumination, light, brightness, sight
  3. (in set phrases with hoz, jön, segít and their derivations) life, birth (as a result of delivery)

Declension

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Possessive forms of világ
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. világom világaim
2nd person sing. világod világaid
3rd person sing. világa világai
1st person plural világunk világaink
2nd person plural világotok világaitok
3rd person plural világuk világaik

Derived terms

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Entry #1111 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ világ in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2025.
  3. ^ világ 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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  • világ 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.
  • világ in Hungarian–English dictionary at SZTAKI