messze

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *mećä (“edge, side of something”). Cognates include Estonian mets (“forest”) and Sami miehćse (“far”).[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛsːɛ]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: mesz‧sze
  • Rhymes: -sɛ

Adverb

messze (comparative messzebb, superlative legmesszebb)

  1. far (at a distance from something; used with -tól/-től)
    Antonym: közel
  2. (figuratively) by far

Derived terms
Expressions

Adjective

messze (comparative messzebb, superlative legmesszebb)

  1. (rare, except in certain phrases) Synonym of messzi (“distant”)

Declension

It is only used attributively, so it cannot have suffixes.

References
  1. Entry #532 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. messze 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
  • messze 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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