tanú
See also: tanu, tänu, tạnu, and tanʉ
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare Uyghur tanuq, Tatar tanïk and see the other terms derived from Proto-Turkic *tanu- (“to [get to] know; to recognize”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtɒnuː]
- Hyphenation: ta‧nú
- Rhymes: -nuː
Noun
tanú (plural tanúk)
- witness (someone called to give evidence in a court)
- witness (someone called upon to witness an event or action, such as a wedding or the signing of a document)
- (with a third-person possessive suffix) being a witness of…, i.e., witnessing something (see the examples and Usage notes at tanúja)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | tanú | tanúk |
| accusative | tanút | tanúkat |
| dative | tanúnak | tanúknak |
| instrumental | tanúval | tanúkkal |
| causal-final | tanúért | tanúkért |
| translative | tanúvá | tanúkká |
| terminative | tanúig | tanúkig |
| essive-formal | tanúként | tanúkként |
| essive-modal | tanúul | — |
| inessive | tanúban | tanúkban |
| superessive | tanún | tanúkon |
| adessive | tanúnál | tanúknál |
| illative | tanúba | tanúkba |
| sublative | tanúra | tanúkra |
| allative | tanúhoz | tanúkhoz |
| elative | tanúból | tanúkból |
| delative | tanúról | tanúkról |
| ablative | tanútól | tanúktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular | tanúé | tanúké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural | tanúéi | tanúkéi |
| Possessive forms of tanú | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | tanúm | tanúim |
| 2nd person sing. | tanúd | tanúid |
| 3rd person sing. | tanúja | tanúi |
| 1st person plural | tanúnk | tanúink |
| 2nd person plural | tanútok | tanúitok |
| 3rd person plural | tanújuk | tanúik |
Derived terms
- tanúság
- tanúsít
- tanúskodik
Compound words
- fültanú
- szemtanú
- tanúbizonyság
- tanúvallomás
- vértanú
References
- tanú 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
- tanú 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
Krisa
Noun
tanú
- head