messze

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Hungarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Adverb[edit]

messze (comparative messzebb, superlative legmesszebb)

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

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Adjective[edit]

messze (comparative messzebb, superlative legmesszebb)

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

Declension[edit]

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

References[edit]

  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[edit]

  • 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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