pöfeteg

Hungarian

Etymology

First attested around 1525. From an otherwise unattested stem + -eteg (“noun-forming suffix”). The stem is the same as of the verb püffed (“to swell”). The name refers to the mushroom's swollen, puffed-up appearance.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈpøfɛtɛɡ]
Hyphenation: pö‧fe‧teg
Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Noun

pöfeteg (plural pöfetegek)

puffball (any of various fungi that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies)

Declension

Inflection (stem in *-e-*, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	pöfeteg	pöfetegek
accusative	pöfeteget	pöfetegeket
dative	pöfetegnek	pöfetegeknek
instrumental	pöfeteggel	pöfetegekkel
causal-final	pöfetegért	pöfetegekért
translative	pöfeteggé	pöfetegekké
terminative	pöfetegig	pöfetegekig
essive-formal	pöfetegként	pöfetegekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	pöfetegben	pöfetegekben
superessive	pöfetegen	pöfetegeken
adessive	pöfetegnél	pöfetegeknél
illative	pöfetegbe	pöfetegekbe
sublative	pöfetegre	pöfetegekre
allative	pöfeteghez	pöfetegekhez
elative	pöfetegből	pöfetegekből
delative	pöfetegről	pöfetegekről
ablative	pöfetegtől	pöfetegektől
non-attributive possessive – singular	pöfetegé	pöfetegeké
non-attributive possessive – plural	pöfetegéi	pöfetegekéi

Possessive forms of *pöfeteg*
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	pöfetegem	pöfetegeim
2nd person sing.	pöfeteged	pöfetegeid
3rd person sing.	pöfetege	pöfetegei
1st person plural	pöfetegünk	pöfetegeink
2nd person plural	pöfetegetek	pöfetegeitek
3rd person plural	pöfetegük	pöfetegeik

References

^ pöfeteg 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.)