hegy

Hungarian

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hegy

Etymology

Disputed, possibly from Proto-Uralic. Two different comparisons have been proposed, both with their own problems:

Akin to Proto-Samoyedic *koəjə (“mountain”).^[1]
Akin to Proto-Finnic *kaca (“point”), Proto-Samic *keaćē (“point”).^[2]

Abondolo (1992)^[3] considers the latter comparison "slightly less unconvincing" (and considers hely (“place”) to be the Hungarian cognate to Samoyedic instead). Koivulehto (2001)^[4] however has etymologized the Finnic and Samic words for 'point' as early loans from Indo-European, unrelated to Hungarian.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈhɛɟ]
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: hegy
Rhymes: -ɛɟ

Noun

hegy (plural hegyek)

mountain
point (of pencil, knife), tip (of finger, tongue, nose)

Declension

Inflection (stem in *-e-*, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	hegy	hegyek
accusative	hegyet	hegyeket
dative	hegynek	hegyeknek
instrumental	heggyel	hegyekkel
causal-final	hegyért	hegyekért
translative	heggyé	hegyekké
terminative	hegyig	hegyekig
essive-formal	hegyként	hegyekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	hegyben	hegyekben
superessive	hegyen	hegyeken
adessive	hegynél	hegyeknél
illative	hegybe	hegyekbe
sublative	hegyre	hegyekre
allative	hegyhez	hegyekhez
elative	hegyből	hegyekből
delative	hegyről	hegyekről
ablative	hegytől	hegyektől
non-attributive possessive – singular	hegyé	hegyeké
non-attributive possessive – plural	hegyéi	hegyekéi

Possessive forms of *hegy*
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	hegyem	hegyeim
2nd person sing.	hegyed	hegyeid
3rd person sing.	hegye	hegyei
1st person plural	hegyünk	hegyeink
2nd person plural	hegyetek	hegyeitek
3rd person plural	hegyük	hegyeik

Derived terms

Compound words, mountain

Compound words, tip

Expressions

ha a hegy nem megy Mohamedhez, Mohamed megy a hegyhez

References

^ Entry #220 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
^ Entry #210 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
^ Abondolo, Daniel. 1992. "Locus meliori datus: Hungarian hegy, hős, ős, tőgy, völgy, vas, hegy, hely. — Rédei-Festschrift, pp. 23–28. Wien/Budapest.
^ Koivulehto, Jorma. 2001. "The Earliest Contacts Between Indo-European and Uralic Speakers." — Christian Carpela, Asko Parpola and Petteri Koskikallio (eds.), Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European, pp. 235–263. Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia 242.