-só

-só

See also: Appendix:Variations of "so"

Hungarian

Etymology

-s (“adjective-forming suffix”) +‎ -ó (“adjective-forming suffix”). The parts cohered in the Ancient Hungarian period.[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃoː]

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Suffix

-só

1. (adjective-forming suffix) Added to a noun or a stem to form an adjective.

   alsó (“bottom”)

   hátsó (“back”)

   utolsó (“last”)

Usage notes

• (adjective-forming suffix) Harmonic variants:

  -só is added to back vowel words

  -ső is added to front vowel words

• The superlative form of the produced adjective is leg-…-só. The usual -bb suffix is added only in exceptional cases:

  alsó - alsóbb - legalsó - legeslegalsó

Derived terms

► <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Hungarian_adjectives_suffixed_with_-s%C3%B3' title='Category:Hungarian adjectives suffixed with -só'>Hungarian adjectives suffixed with -só</a>

See also

• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

References

1. Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN