mendemonda

Hungarian

Etymology

mende + monda, a reduplication of monda (“s/he said”), the obsolete past tense of mond (“to say”). Its original form was probably monda-monda and it referred to the repeated saying of a story or news. The vowels dissimilated in the first part.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈmɛndɛmondɒ]
Hyphenation: men‧de‧mon‧da
Rhymes: -dɒ

Noun

mendemonda (plural mendemondák)

(derogatory) hearsay, scuttlebutt, gossip, rumor, idle chatter (information that was heard by one person about another that cannot be adequately substantiated)
Synonyms: híresztelés, szóbeszéd, pletyka, mesebeszéd

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	mendemonda	mendemondák
accusative	mendemondát	mendemondákat
dative	mendemondának	mendemondáknak
instrumental	mendemondával	mendemondákkal
causal-final	mendemondáért	mendemondákért
translative	mendemondává	mendemondákká
terminative	mendemondáig	mendemondákig
essive-formal	mendemondaként	mendemondákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	mendemondában	mendemondákban
superessive	mendemondán	mendemondákon
adessive	mendemondánál	mendemondáknál
illative	mendemondába	mendemondákba
sublative	mendemondára	mendemondákra
allative	mendemondához	mendemondákhoz
elative	mendemondából	mendemondákból
delative	mendemondáról	mendemondákról
ablative	mendemondától	mendemondáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	mendemondáé	mendemondáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	mendemondáéi	mendemondákéi

Possessive forms of mendemonda
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	mendemondám	mendemondáim
2nd person sing.	mendemondád	mendemondáid
3rd person sing.	mendemondája	mendemondái
1st person plural	mendemondánk	mendemondáink
2nd person plural	mendemondátok	mendemondáitok
3rd person plural	mendemondájuk	mendemondáik

Derived terms

monda

References

^ mendemonda 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.)