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See also: vágy
Hungarian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From the expression az vagyon (“that is”). Compare Polish bądź.
Conjunction
[edit]vagy
- or
- Coordinate term: és
- Ez vagy az? ― This or that?
- either … or …
- Vagy itt van, vagy ott. ― It is either here or there.
Derived terms
[edit]Expressions
Adverb
[edit]vagy (not comparable)
- (informal) about, like
- Synonyms: nagyjából, körülbelül, mintegy
- Megevett vagy hat szendvicset. ― He ate about six sandwiches.
- 1924, Géza Gárdonyi, Ida regénye, Budapest: Scolar Kiadó, published 2021, →ISBN, page 9:
- Vagy hárman ültek még ott a reggelizőasztalnál, afféle éhgyomor-kedvetlen pesti urak. Mutatja a szomszédjának az újságot: […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Etymology 2
[edit]Ultimately from Proto-Finno-Ugric *wole- (“to be, will be”) (present-day Hungarian van),[1] via pre–Old Hungarian vol-, via hypothetical *voly- (ly indicating /ʎ/), via vadźs- (dźs indicating /ɟ͡ʝ/),[2][3] and eventually (in the later Old Hungarian period) becoming vagy.[4][5] The other first- and second-person forms vagyok (“I am”), vagyunk (“we are”), and vagytok (“you are”, plural) also derive from this stem. The vowel o became more open at the same time.[6] Compare also vagyon (noun and archaic verb form).
Verb
[edit]vagy
- second-person singular indicative present indefinite of van: you are (informal, familiar)
- Coordinate term: ([third-person and] formal second-person form) van
- Hol vagy? ― Where are you?
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Entry #1160 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- ^ Kiss, Jenő and Ferenc Pusztai (eds). Magyar nyelvtörténet (’Hungarian Language History’). Budapest: Osiris, 2003. →ISBN (with remote access at Arcanum’s Szaktárs for members of Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Librarydb and other institutions), p. 122)
- ^ Kiss, Jenő and Ferenc Pusztai (eds). Magyar nyelvtörténet (’Hungarian Language History’). Budapest: Osiris, 2003. →ISBN (with remote access at Arcanum’s Szaktárs for members of Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Librarydb and other institutions), p. 304
- ^ Kiss, Jenő and Ferenc Pusztai (eds). Magyar nyelvtörténet (’Hungarian Language History’). Budapest: Osiris, 2003. →ISBN (with remote access at Arcanum’s Szaktárs for members of Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Librarydb and other institutions), p. 120
- ^ Kiss, Jenő and Ferenc Pusztai (eds). Magyar nyelvtörténet (’Hungarian Language History’). Budapest: Osiris, 2003. →ISBN (with remote access at Arcanum’s Szaktárs for members of Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Librarydb and other institutions), p. 316
- ^ Kiss, Jenő and Ferenc Pusztai (eds). Magyar nyelvtörténet (’Hungarian Language History’). Budapest: Osiris, 2003. →ISBN (with remote access at Arcanum’s Szaktárs for members of Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Librarydb and other institutions), p. 329
Further reading
[edit]- (“or” etc.): vagy 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
- Pusztai, Ferenc (ed.). Magyar értelmező kéziszótár (“A Concise Explanatory Dictionary of Hungarian”). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003. 2nd, expanded and revised edition →ISBN. Online searchable version (under development)
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