Weöres
Hungarian
Etymology
An archaic spelling variant of vörös (“red”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ ˈvørøʃ] (phonetic respelling: vörös)[3][4][5][6]
- Homophone: vörös
- Hyphenation: Weö‧res
- Rhymes: -øʃ
Proper noun
Weöres
- A surname.
- Sándor Weöres, Hungarian poet
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -ö-, front rounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | Weöres | Weöresök |
| accusative | Weörest | Weöresöket |
| dative | Weöresnek | Weöresöknek |
| instrumental | Weöressel | Weöresökkel |
| causal-final | Weöresért | Weöresökért |
| translative | Weöressé | Weöresökké |
| terminative | Weöresig | Weöresökig |
| essive-formal | Weöresként | Weöresökként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | Weöresben | Weöresökben |
| superessive | Weöresön | Weöresökön |
| adessive | Weöresnél | Weöresöknél |
| illative | Weöresbe | Weöresökbe |
| sublative | Weöresre | Weöresökre |
| allative | Weöreshöz | Weöresökhöz |
| elative | Weöresből | Weöresökből |
| delative | Weöresről | Weöresökről |
| ablative | Weörestől | Weöresöktől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular | Weöresé | Weöresöké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural | Weöreséi | Weöresökéi |
| Possessive forms of Weöres | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | Weöresöm | Weöreseim |
| 2nd person sing. | Weöresöd | Weöreseid |
| 3rd person sing. | Weörese | Weöresei |
| 1st person plural | Weöresünk | Weöreseink |
| 2nd person plural | Weöresötök | Weöreseitek |
| 3rd person plural | Weöresük | Weöreseik |
See also
- Appendix:Hungarian surnames
References
- Vörös, Ferenc. Comments on the Atlas of Hungarian Family Names in preparation (in Hungarian; see the English-language abstract at the end)
- A családnevek fajai (“The types of surnames”), in the chapter Személynevek (personal names) by Mihály Hajdú, in Sipos, Lajos (editor in chief). Pannon Enciklopédia, vol. 5, Magyar nyelv és irodalom. Budapest, Dunakanyar 2000, 1997. →ISBN
- An interview with the poet (YouTube) made by Mátyás Domokos, where the poet states the current pronunciation of his surname at 3:52–3:54.
- The way the poet Sándor Weöres pronounced his surname in an interview by László Cs. Szabó, made in London for the Hungarian-language broadcast of BBC. The interview was published in print: Cs. Szabó, László. Negyvenhat perc a költővel. Interjú Weöres Sándorral [“Forty-six minutes with the poet. An interview with Sándor Weöres”]. Magyar Műhely [“Hungarian Workshop”], no. 7–8, 1964, pp. 105–116.
- Új magyar irodalmi lexikon [“New Hungarian Encyclopedia of Literature”]. Budapest, Akadémiai, 1994. →ISBN
- It is fairly common for old Hungarian surnames to spell the sound ö with eö/eő, cf. Eördögh (“ördög”), Eötvös (“ötvös”), Eörsi (“örsi”), Eőry (“őri”), so the only exceptional feature of this name is that its second ö sound is written with an e.