mindnyájan

Hungarian

Etymology

First attested in c. 1495. From mind (“all”, indefinite pronoun) +‎ nyáj (large number of people) +‎ -a (possessive suffix) + -n (adverb-forming suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmiɲːaːjɒn]
  • Hyphenation: mind‧nyá‧jan
  • Rhymes: -ɒn

Adverb

mindnyájan (not comparable)

  1. (of persons) all, all of us, all of them, we all, they all

References

  1. ^ mindnyájan 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

  • mindnyájan 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.
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