dunyha
Hungarian
Alternative forms
- dunna (folksy)
Etymology
[1458] Borrowed from a South or West Slavic language. Compare Serbo-Croatian dunja, Slovak duchna (“eiderdown”), from Proto-Slavic *duxъ (“breath”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈduɲɦɒ]
- Hyphenation: duny‧ha
Noun
dunyha (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
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Possessive forms of dunyha | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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
- Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN