nyereg
Hungarian
nyereg
nyereg (the bridge of a violin)
Etymology
From Proto-Ugric *närkɜ (“saddle”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɲɛrɛɡ]
- Hyphenation: nye‧reg
- Rhymes: -ɛɡ
Noun
nyereg (plural nyergek)
- saddle (a seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal)
- saddle (a seat on a bicycle, motorcycle, etc.)
- (anatomy) bridge (the upper bony ridge of the human nose)
- Synonym: orrnyereg
- (music) bridge (the piece, on string instruments, that supports the strings from the sounding board)
- (zoology) clitellum (a glandular swelling in the epidermis of some annelid worms; it secretes a viscous fluid in which the eggs are deposited)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | nyereg | nyergek |
| accusative | nyerget | nyergeket |
| dative | nyeregnek | nyergeknek |
| instrumental | nyereggel | nyergekkel |
| causal-final | nyeregért | nyergekért |
| translative | nyereggé | nyergekké |
| terminative | nyeregig | nyergekig |
| essive-formal | nyeregként | nyergekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | nyeregben | nyergekben |
| superessive | nyergen | nyergeken |
| adessive | nyeregnél | nyergeknél |
| illative | nyeregbe | nyergekbe |
| sublative | nyeregre | nyergekre |
| allative | nyereghez | nyergekhez |
| elative | nyeregből | nyergekből |
| delative | nyeregről | nyergekről |
| ablative | nyeregtől | nyergektől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular | nyeregé | nyergeké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural | nyeregéi | nyergekéi |
| Possessive forms of nyereg | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | nyergem | nyergeim |
| 2nd person sing. | nyerged | nyergeid |
| 3rd person sing. | nyerge | nyergei |
| 1st person plural | nyergünk | nyergeink |
| 2nd person plural | nyergetek | nyergeitek |
| 3rd person plural | nyergük | nyergeik |
Derived terms
- nyergel → felnyergel
- nyerges
Compound words
- nyeregalátét
- nyeregpont
- nyeregtakaró
- orrnyereg
- töröknyereg
References
- Entry #1816 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.
- nyereg 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
- nyereg in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN