dunyha
Hungarian
Alternative forms
- dunna (folksy)
Etymology
First attested in 1458. Borrowed from a South or West Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *duxъna.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈduɲɦɒ]
- Hyphenation: duny‧ha
- Rhymes: -hɒ
Noun
dunyha (usually uncountable, plural dunyhák)
- eiderdown (a type of thick bedding consisting of a soft flat bag loosely filled with down feathers of ducks, usually protected with a removable cover)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | dunyha | dunyhák |
| accusative | dunyhát | dunyhákat |
| dative | dunyhának | dunyháknak |
| instrumental | dunyhával | dunyhákkal |
| causal-final | dunyháért | dunyhákért |
| translative | dunyhává | dunyhákká |
| terminative | dunyháig | dunyhákig |
| essive-formal | dunyhaként | dunyhákként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | dunyhában | dunyhákban |
| superessive | dunyhán | dunyhákon |
| adessive | dunyhánál | dunyháknál |
| illative | dunyhába | dunyhákba |
| sublative | dunyhára | dunyhákra |
| allative | dunyhához | dunyhákhoz |
| elative | dunyhából | dunyhákból |
| delative | dunyháról | dunyhákról |
| ablative | dunyhától | dunyháktól |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
dunyháé | dunyháké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
dunyháéi | dunyhákéi |
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person sing. | dunyhám | dunyháim |
| 2nd person sing. | dunyhád | dunyháid |
| 3rd person sing. | dunyhája | dunyhái |
| 1st person plural | dunyhánk | dunyháink |
| 2nd person plural | dunyhátok | dunyháitok |
| 3rd person plural | dunyhájuk | dunyháik |
Derived terms
- dunyhájú
- dunyhás
Compound words
- dunyhaciha
- dunyhahéj
- dunyhahuzat
References
- ^ dunyha 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
- dunyha 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.
- dunyha in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).