-lat
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "lat"
Hungarian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From -l (verb-forming suffix) + -at (noun-forming suffix), created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries. The neologists popularized it based on verbs ending in -l and further derived with -at/-et.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Suffix[edit]
-lat
- (noun-forming suffix) Added to different parts of speech to form a noun.
Usage notes[edit]
- (noun-forming suffix) Variants:
- -lat is added to back-vowel words
- -let is added to front-vowel words
- Some nouns endomg in -lat do not belong to this category. The suffix -at is added after a stem-final -l, for example jóslat.
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ -lat 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.)