mendemonda
Hungarian
Etymology
mende + monda, a reduplication of monda (“s/he said”), the obsolete past tense of mond (“to say”). Its original form was probably monda-monda and it referred to the repeated saying of a story or news. The vowels dissimilated in the first part.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmɛndɛmondɒ]
- Hyphenation: men‧de‧mon‧da
Noun
mendemonda (plural mendemondák)
- (derogatory) hearsay, scuttlebutt, gossip, rumor, idle chatter (information that was heard by one person about another that cannot be adequately substantiated)
- Synonyms: híresztelés, szóbeszéd, pletyka, mesebeszéd
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | mendemonda | mendemondák |
| accusative | mendemondát | mendemondákat |
| dative | mendemondának | mendemondáknak |
| instrumental | mendemondával | mendemondákkal |
| causal-final | mendemondáért | mendemondákért |
| translative | mendemondává | mendemondákká |
| terminative | mendemondáig | mendemondákig |
| essive-formal | mendemondaként | mendemondákként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | mendemondában | mendemondákban |
| superessive | mendemondán | mendemondákon |
| adessive | mendemondánál | mendemondáknál |
| illative | mendemondába | mendemondákba |
| sublative | mendemondára | mendemondákra |
| allative | mendemondához | mendemondákhoz |
| elative | mendemondából | mendemondákból |
| delative | mendemondáról | mendemondákról |
| ablative | mendemondától | mendemondáktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular | mendemondáé | mendemondáké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural | mendemondáéi | mendemondákéi |
| Possessive forms of mendemonda | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | mendemondám | mendemondáim |
| 2nd person sing. | mendemondád | mendemondáid |
| 3rd person sing. | mendemondája | mendemondái |
| 1st person plural | mendemondánk | mendemondáink |
| 2nd person plural | mendemondátok | mendemondáitok |
| 3rd person plural | mendemondájuk | mendemondáik |
Derived terms
- monda
See also
- Appendix:Hungarian reduplications and coordinated pairs
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
Further reading
- mendemonda in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.