-lan

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lan"

Hungarian

Etymology

Probably a compound suffix from al (“past, over”) +‎ -an (adverb-forming suffix) meaning past a certain time, space or number.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [lɒn]
  • Rhymes: -ɒn

Suffix

-lan

  1. (adverb-forming suffix, rare, archaic) Usually added to words ending in the terminative case suffix -ig (“until, till, up to”) and it means the inclusion of the mentioned boundary (not just up to the boundary).
    ‎életfogytig + ‎-lan → ‎életfogytiglan
    Az egész falu leégett az utolsó háziglan. ― The entire village burned down to the last house. (No house was spared in the fire.)

Usage notes
  • (adverb-forming suffix) Variants:
    -lan is added to back-vowel words
    -len is added to front-vowel words

Derived terms
Hungarian adverbs suffixed with -lan

References
  1. -lan in Czuczor, Gergely and János Fogarasi: A magyar nyelv szótára (’A Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Pest: Emich Gusztáv Magyar Akadémiai Nyomdász, 1862–1874.

Turkish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɫɑn/, [ɫ̪ɑn̪]

Etymology 1

From part of Ottoman Turkish ـلنمق (lanmak, passive infinitive suffix after back vowels). Analyzable as -la (forms verbs from nouns) + -n (reflexive marker).

Suffix
preceding vowel
A / I / O / U E / İ / Ö / Ü
-lan -len

-lan

  1. Form of -len after the vowels A / I / O / U.
    ‎hasta (“ill, sick”) + ‎-lan → ‎hastalanmak (“to get sick”)
    ‎kaygı (“anxiety”) + ‎-lan → ‎kaygılanmak (“to get anxious”)
Derived terms

See -len.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *-lan.

Suffix

-lan

  1. Noun-forming suffix frequently denoting a "wild and predatory animal".
Derived terms
Terms derived from -lan
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