zönge

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries. From a variant of the verb zeng (to ring, resound), with the archaic adjective-forming suffix -e, here used to create a noun.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈzøŋɡɛ]
  • Hyphenation: zön‧ge
  • Rhymes: -ɡɛ

Noun

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zönge (usually uncountable, plural zöngék)

  1. (archaic) the vibration of a sound
  2. (archaic) musical note/tone
  3. (phonetics, phonology) voicing (a classification of speech sounds, associated with vocal cord vibration)

Declension

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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative zönge zöngék
accusative zöngét zöngéket
dative zöngének zöngéknek
instrumental zöngével zöngékkel
causal-final zöngéért zöngékért
translative zöngévé zöngékké
terminative zöngéig zöngékig
essive-formal zöngeként zöngékként
essive-modal
inessive zöngében zöngékben
superessive zöngén zöngéken
adessive zöngénél zöngéknél
illative zöngébe zöngékbe
sublative zöngére zöngékre
allative zöngéhez zöngékhez
elative zöngéből zöngékből
delative zöngéről zöngékről
ablative zöngétől zöngéktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
zöngéé zöngéké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
zöngééi zöngékéi
Possessive forms of zönge
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. zöngém zöngéim
2nd person sing. zöngéd zöngéid
3rd person sing. zöngéje zöngéi
1st person plural zöngénk zöngéink
2nd person plural zöngétek zöngéitek
3rd person plural zöngéjük zöngéik

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ zönge in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

Further reading

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  • zönge 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