modor

From mód +‎ -r (obsolete noun-forming suffix). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈmodor]
• Hyphenation: mo‧dor
• Rhymes: -or

modor (plural modorok)

1. manners

   Synonym: viselkedés

   1. good manners

      Synonyms: illem, illendőség, jólneveltség, jó modor

2. manner, style (following the style of a particular person, e.g. an author, or that of a people)

   Synonym: stílus

3. tone, language, tenor, note

   Synonyms: hangnem, hangvétel, hang, tónus, beszédmód, kifejezésmód

• modor 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.

• mōdur, mōder, mōddor

From Proto-West Germanic *mōder, from Proto-Germanic *mōdēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Cognate with Old Frisian mōder, Old Saxon mōdar, Old Dutch muoder, Old High German muoter, Old Norse móðir.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoː.dor/

mōdor f

1. mother
   • late 9th century, Old English Martyrology

     Herodes hēt tīon þā ċild of hira mōdor brēostum ond bōsmum, ond þonne man þā ċild cwealde, þonne spiwon hīe þā meoloc ǣr þæt blōd.

     Herod ordered that the children be torn from the breasts and bosoms of their mothers, and when they were killed they spat out the milk before the blood.

• bēomōdor
• mōdorlēas
• mōdorlīċ
• mōdorlufu
• Mōdra niht

• Middle English: moder
  • English: mother, mither (Scotland and Northern England)
    • Australian Kriol: motha
    • → Japanese: マザー (mazā)
    • → Korean: 마더 (madeo)
  • Scots: mither, medder, midder, moder, moeder (Shetland), mideer, mother
  • Yola: moodher, moother, moothar