gyalu
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Ugric *jᴕrɜ (“iron scraper”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gyalu (plural gyaluk)
- plane (a tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface)
- slicer, cutter (for cabbage)
- shredder (for vegetables)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | gyalu | gyaluk |
| accusative | gyalut | gyalukat |
| dative | gyalunak | gyaluknak |
| instrumental | gyaluval | gyalukkal |
| causal-final | gyaluért | gyalukért |
| translative | gyaluvá | gyalukká |
| terminative | gyaluig | gyalukig |
| essive-formal | gyaluként | gyalukként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | gyaluban | gyalukban |
| superessive | gyalun | gyalukon |
| adessive | gyalunál | gyaluknál |
| illative | gyaluba | gyalukba |
| sublative | gyalura | gyalukra |
| allative | gyaluhoz | gyalukhoz |
| elative | gyaluból | gyalukból |
| delative | gyaluról | gyalukról |
| ablative | gyalutól | gyaluktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
gyalué | gyaluké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
gyaluéi | gyalukéi |
| Possessive forms of gyalu | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | gyalum | gyaluim |
| 2nd person sing. | gyalud | gyaluid |
| 3rd person sing. | gyaluja | gyalui |
| 1st person plural | gyalunk | gyaluink |
| 2nd person plural | gyalutok | gyaluitok |
| 3rd person plural | gyalujuk | gyaluik |
Derived terms
[edit]Compound words
References
[edit]- ^ Entry #1764 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- ^ gyalu 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
[edit]- gyalu 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