Tejút

Hungarian

Etymology

tej (“milk”) +‎ út (“way”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛjuːt]
  • Hyphenation: Tej‧út
  • Rhymes: -uːt

Proper noun

Tejút

  1. (astronomy) our galaxy that we inhabit
    Synonym: Tejútrendszer
  2. (astronomy) Milky Way, a broad band of diffuse white light, visible in the night sky; our view of the galaxy that we inhabit

Usage notes

Some astronomical and geographical terms have both a lowercase (common noun) and a capitalized (proper noun) form. For föld (“ground, soil”)―​Föld (“Earth”), hold (“moon, satellite”)―​Hold (“the Moon”), and nap (“day; sun”)―​Nap (“the Sun”), the lowercase forms are used in the everyday sense and the capitalized forms in the astronomical sense. In other similar pairs, the former refers to generic sense, and the latter specifies the best known referent: egyenlítő (“equator”)―​Egyenlítő (“Equator”), naprendszer (“solar system, planetary system”)―​Naprendszer (“Solar System”), and tejút (“galaxy”, literally “milky way”, but galaxis and galaktika are more common)―​Tejút (“Milky Way”).

Declension

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative Tejút —
accusative Tejutat —
dative Tejútnak —
instrumental Tejúttal —
causal-final Tejútért —
translative Tejúttá —
terminative Tejútig —
essive-formal Tejútként —
essive-modal — —
inessive Tejútban —
superessive Tejúton —
adessive Tejútnál —
illative Tejútba —
sublative Tejútra —
allative Tejúthoz —
elative Tejútból —
delative Tejútról —
ablative Tejúttól —
non-attributive
possessive - singular
Tejúté —
non-attributive
possessive - plural
Tejútéi —
Possessive forms of Tejút
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Tejutam —
2nd person sing. Tejutad —
3rd person sing. Tejútja —
1st person plural Tejutunk —
2nd person plural Tejutatok —
3rd person plural Tejútjuk —

Further reading

  • tejút 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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