pöfeteg
Hungarian
Etymology
First attested around 1525. From an otherwise unattested stem + -eteg (“noun-forming suffix”). The stem is the same as of the verb püffed (“to swell”). The name refers to the mushroom's swollen, puffed-up appearance.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpøfɛtɛɡ]
- Hyphenation: pö‧fe‧teg
Noun
pöfeteg (plural pöfetegek)
- puffball (any of various fungi that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | pöfeteg | pöfetegek |
| accusative | pöfeteget | pöfetegeket |
| dative | pöfetegnek | pöfetegeknek |
| instrumental | pöfeteggel | pöfetegekkel |
| causal-final | pöfetegért | pöfetegekért |
| translative | pöfeteggé | pöfetegekké |
| terminative | pöfetegig | pöfetegekig |
| essive-formal | pöfetegként | pöfetegekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | pöfetegben | pöfetegekben |
| superessive | pöfetegen | pöfetegeken |
| adessive | pöfetegnél | pöfetegeknél |
| illative | pöfetegbe | pöfetegekbe |
| sublative | pöfetegre | pöfetegekre |
| allative | pöfeteghez | pöfetegekhez |
| elative | pöfetegből | pöfetegekből |
| delative | pöfetegről | pöfetegekről |
| ablative | pöfetegtől | pöfetegektől |
| Possessive forms of pöfeteg | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | pöfetegem | pöfetegeim |
| 2nd person sing. | pöfeteged | pöfetegeid |
| 3rd person sing. | pöfetege | pöfetegei |
| 1st person plural | pöfetegünk | pöfetegeink |
| 2nd person plural | pöfetegetek | pöfetegeitek |
| 3rd person plural | pöfetegük | pöfetegeik |
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