vadon
See also: Vadon
Esperanto
Noun
vadon
- accusative singular of vado
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈvɒdon]
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: va‧don
- Rhymes: -on
Etymology 1
From the adjective vadon, split from phrases such as vadon erdő (“wild forest”).[1]
Noun
vadon (plural vadonok)
- remote, uncultivated, lush, primeval forest, far from human habitation
- wilderness (barren, desolate, abandoned region, uncultivated tract of land)
- A vadon szava ― The Call of the Wild (a 1903 novel by Jack London)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | vadon | vadonok |
| accusative | vadont | vadonokat |
| dative | vadonnak | vadonoknak |
| instrumental | vadonnal | vadonokkal |
| causal-final | vadonért | vadonokért |
| translative | vadonná | vadonokká |
| terminative | vadonig | vadonokig |
| essive-formal | vadonként | vadonokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | vadonban | vadonokban |
| superessive | vadonon | vadonokon |
| adessive | vadonnál | vadonoknál |
| illative | vadonba | vadonokba |
| sublative | vadonra | vadonokra |
| allative | vadonhoz | vadonokhoz |
| elative | vadonból | vadonokból |
| delative | vadonról | vadonokról |
| ablative | vadontól | vadonoktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular | vadoné | vadonoké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural | vadonéi | vadonokéi |
| Possessive forms of vadon | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | vadonom | vadonaim vadonjaim |
| 2nd person sing. | vadonod | vadonaid vadonjaid |
| 3rd person sing. | vadona vadonja | vadonai vadonjai |
| 1st person plural | vadonunk | vadonaink vadonjaink |
| 2nd person plural | vadonotok | vadonaitok vadonjaitok |
| 3rd person plural | vadonuk vadonjuk | vadonaik vadonjaik |
Adverb
vadon (not comparable)
- (in the) wild, uncultivated (in a natural state, unaffected by cultivation)
- vadon termő gyümölcs ― wild fruit (literally, “fruit produced in the wild”)
Etymology 3
From the adjective vad (“wild”) + -o- + -n (nominal-forming suffix). For the -n ~ -ny nominal-forming suffix, compare gyertyán, kemény, sovány.[1]
Adjective
vadon (not comparable)
- (poetic, rare) wild, uncultivated (in a natural state, unaffected by cultivation)
- Synonyms: zord, kietlen, elhagyott
Etymology 4
vad (“wild; game (wild animal)”) + -on (superessive case ending)
Adjective
vadon
- superessive singular of vad
Noun
vadon
- superessive singular of vad
References
- vadon 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
- (remote forest; wilderness): vadon 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