idomtalan
Hungarian
Etymology
Probably a doublet-formation from ildomtalan (“unreasonable, foolish (1416); imporper (1859)”) by dropping the internal -l- of the word. Itself is probably borrowed from Turkish + -talan (“-less, without”, privative adjective-forming suffix). First attested in 1784.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈidomtɒlɒn]
- Hyphenation: idom‧ta‧lan
- Rhymes: -ɒn
Adjective
idomtalan (comparative idomtalanabb, superlative legidomtalanabb)
- (literary) ungainly (strikingly large and clumsy)
- 1881, Mikszáth Kálmán, Tót atyafiak[1]:
- Matyej behunyta szemeit, s egyet bólintott, nagy, idomtalan fejével, hogy ő nem aljas.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (archaic) shapeless, malformed, misshapen (having a bad or ugly form)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | idomtalan | idomtalanok |
| accusative | idomtalant | idomtalanokat |
| dative | idomtalannak | idomtalanoknak |
| instrumental | idomtalannal | idomtalanokkal |
| causal-final | idomtalanért | idomtalanokért |
| translative | idomtalanná | idomtalanokká |
| terminative | idomtalanig | idomtalanokig |
| essive-formal | idomtalanként | idomtalanokként |
| essive-modal | idomtalanul | — |
| inessive | idomtalanban | idomtalanokban |
| superessive | idomtalanon | idomtalanokon |
| adessive | idomtalannál | idomtalanoknál |
| illative | idomtalanba | idomtalanokba |
| sublative | idomtalanra | idomtalanokra |
| allative | idomtalanhoz | idomtalanokhoz |
| elative | idomtalanból | idomtalanokból |
| delative | idomtalanról | idomtalanokról |
| ablative | idomtalantól | idomtalanoktól |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
idomtalané | idomtalanoké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
idomtalanéi | idomtalanokéi |
Derived terms
- idom
- idomtalanság
References
- ^ idomtalan in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
Further reading
- idomtalan 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.