-gén

See also: Appendix:Variations of "gen"

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from French -gène, from Ancient Greek -γενής (-genḗs).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɡeːn]

Suffix

-gén

  1. -gen (a producer of something, or an agent in the production of something)
    oxigén (savképző - acid-forming) ― oxygen
  2. -gen (referring to the origin or lineage of something)
    exogén ― exogenous (having an external cause)

References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
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