evé

See also: eve, Eve, EVE, éve, Ève, Êve, and Eʋe

Hungarian

Etymology

From eszik (“to eat”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɛveː]
Hyphenation: evé
Rhymes: -veː

Verb

evé

Archaic past third-person singular definite form of eszik.
Synonym: (present-day form) ette

Usage notes

This form also occurs when a verbal prefix is separated from the verb:

evé (…) meg, meg … evé ― megevé ― megeszik
and some more, see its derivatives with verbal prefixes.[1]

References

A 2006 movie by Miklós Jancsó was playfully titled Ede megevé ebédem (“Ed ate my lunch”), based on a 1937 pamphlet, which latter was based on a common starting practice sentence in stenography course books.

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