víz
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Etymology
From Proto-Uralic *wete.[1] First attested in the late 12th century.[2] Cognates include Northern Mansi вит (vit), Erzya ведь (veď), Finnish vesi, Estonian vesi.
Pronunciation
Noun
víz (countable and uncountable, plural vizek)
- water (liquid H2O)
- (physics) water (chemical having the formula H2O)
- Synonym: dihidrogén-monoxid
- water (any body of water, or a specific part of it)
- 1844, Sándor Petőfi, translated by John Ridland, János vitéz, chapter 4, stanza 1:
- Mikorra a patak vize tükörré lett, / Melybe ezer csillag ragyogása nézett: / Jancsi Iluskáék kertje alatt vala; / Maga sem tudta, hogy mikép jutott oda.
- When the brook made a looking glass of its water, / In whose surface a thousand stars were a-glitter, / Johnny was standing at the foot of Nell’s yard; / Though to tell how he'd come to it would have been hard.
- (dialectal) flood
- Synonym: árvíz
- drinking water, mineral water
- Synonym: ivóvíz
- bathwater
- Synonym: fürdővíz
- sweat
- 1939, Jenő Rejtő, chapter 2, in A Nevada szelleme:
- Ez a férfi csakúgy sugározta magából a durva, nyugati ember kegyetlen erejét és vadságát. Bár folyt a víz róla, és inge izzadtan tapadt a testéhez, vasegészségében bízva egyetlen hajtásra itta ki a jeges whiskyt.
- This man exuded the cruel strength and ferocity of the rough, Western man. Though he was dripping with water, and his shirt clung to his body with sweat, he drank the icy whisky in one gulp, trusting his iron health.
- (rare) water (limpidity and lustre of a precious stone)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | víz | vizek |
| accusative | vizet | vizeket |
| dative | víznek | vizeknek |
| instrumental | vízzel | vizekkel |
| causal-final | vízért | vizekért |
| translative | vízzé | vizekké |
| terminative | vízig | vizekig |
| essive-formal | vízként | vizekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | vízben | vizekben |
| superessive | vízen | vizeken |
| adessive | víznél | vizeknél |
| illative | vízbe | vizekbe |
| sublative | vízre | vizekre |
| allative | vízhez | vizekhez |
| elative | vízből | vizekből |
| delative | vízről | vizekről |
| ablative | víztől | vizektől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
vízé | vizeké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
vízéi | vizekéi |
| Possessive forms of víz | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | vizem | vizeim |
| 2nd person sing. | vized | vizeid |
| 3rd person sing. | vize | vizei |
| 1st person plural | vizünk | vizeink |
| 2nd person plural | vizetek | vizeitek |
| 3rd person plural | vizük | vizeik |
Derived terms
Compound words with this term at the beginning
Compound words with this term at the end
Expressions
References
- Entry #1142 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- víz 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.)
- víz in Hungarian–English dictionary at SZTAKI
Further reading
- víz in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
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