nyereg

Hungarian

nyereg
nyereg (the bridge of a violin)

Etymology

From Proto-Ugric *närkɜ (“saddle”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɲɛrɛɡ]
  • Hyphenation: nye‧reg

Noun

nyereg (plural nyergek)

  1. saddle (a seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal)
  2. saddle (a seat on a bicycle, motorcycle, etc.)
  3. (anatomy) bridge (the upper bony ridge of the human nose)
    Synonym: orrnyereg
  4. (music) bridge (the piece, on string instruments, that supports the strings from the sounding board)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative nyereg nyergek
accusative nyerget nyergeket
dative nyeregnek nyergeknek
instrumental nyereggel nyergekkel
causal-final nyeregért nyergekért
translative nyereggé nyergekké
terminative nyeregig nyergekig
essive-formal nyeregként nyergekként
essive-modal — —
inessive nyeregben nyergekben
superessive nyergen nyergeken
adessive nyeregnél nyergeknél
illative nyeregbe nyergekbe
sublative nyeregre nyergekre
allative nyereghez nyergekhez
elative nyeregből nyergekből
delative nyeregről nyergekről
ablative nyeregtől nyergektől
Possessive forms of nyereg
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. nyergem nyergeim
2nd person sing. nyerged nyergeid
3rd person sing. nyerge nyergei
1st person plural nyergünk nyergeink
2nd person plural nyergetek nyergeitek
3rd person plural nyergük nyergeik

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ Entry #1816 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  2. ↑ Gábor Zaicz, Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete, Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN
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