meder

See also: Meder

Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛdɛr]
  • Hyphenation: me‧der
  • Rhymes: -ɛr

Noun

meder (plural medrek)

  1. bed, channel, course (a channel that a flowing body of water follows; e.g. the bottom earthen part of a river)
  2. (figuratively, formal) direction, characteristics

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative meder medrek
accusative medret medreket
dative medernek medreknek
instrumental mederrel medrekkel
causal-final mederért medrekért
translative mederré medrekké
terminative mederig medrekig
essive-formal mederként medrekként
essive-modal
inessive mederben medrekben
superessive medren medreken
adessive medernél medreknél
illative mederbe medrekbe
sublative mederre medrekre
allative mederhez medrekhez
elative mederből medrekből
delative mederről medrekről
ablative medertől medrektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
mederé medreké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
mederéi medrekéi
Possessive forms of meder
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. medrem medreim
2nd person sing. medred medreid
3rd person sing. medre medrei
1st person plural medrünk medreink
2nd person plural medretek medreitek
3rd person plural medrük medreik

Derived terms

References

  1. meder 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

  • meder 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
  • meder in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μῆδος (Mêdos).

Noun

meder m (definite singular mederen, indefinite plural medere, definite plural mederne)

  1. Mede (an inhabitant of Media)

See also

References

Swedish

Etymology

Derived from Latin Mēdus, from Ancient Greek Μῆδος (Mêdos). Cognate of German Meder, French mède.

Noun

meder c

  1. Mede

Declension

Declension of meder 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative meder medern meder mederna
Genitive meders mederns meders medernas

References

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