haránt
Hungarian
Etymology
Back-formation from haránték, harántos (“thwart”), two obsolete adjectives, themselves from Proto-Uralic *kurɜ (“curved, skewed, crooked; make curved, skewed, crooked”). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈhɒraːnt]
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: ha‧ránt
- Rhymes: -aːnt
Adverb
haránt
Derived terms
Compound words
- harántcsíkolt
Adjective
haránt (not comparable)
- (rare) transverse (situated or lying across)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | haránt | harántak |
| accusative | harántat | harántakat |
| dative | harántnak | harántaknak |
| instrumental | haránttal | harántakkal |
| causal-final | harántért | harántakért |
| translative | haránttá | harántakká |
| terminative | harántig | harántakig |
| essive-formal | harántként | harántakként |
| essive-modal | harántul | — |
| inessive | harántban | harántakban |
| superessive | haránton | harántakon |
| adessive | harántnál | harántaknál |
| illative | harántba | harántakba |
| sublative | harántra | harántakra |
| allative | haránthoz | harántakhoz |
| elative | harántból | harántakból |
| delative | harántról | harántakról |
| ablative | haránttól | harántaktól |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
haránté | harántaké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
harántéi | harántakéi |
Derived terms
Compound words
- harántemelő (short for harántboltozat-emelő)
- harántujj
Expressions
References
- ^ Entry #425 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- ^ haránt 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
- haránt in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.