potroh

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from either Russian потроха (potroxa) or Ukrainian потрохи (potroxy, “giblets”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈpotrox]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: pot‧roh
  • Rhymes: -ox

Noun

potroh (plural potrohok)

  1. potbelly, paunch (the belly of a human, especially a large, fat protruding one) [around 1336]
  2. (zoology) abdomen (of an arthropod) [1878]
    Coordinate terms: fej, tor

Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative potroh potrohok
accusative potrohot potrohokat
dative potrohnak potrohoknak
instrumental potrohhal potrohokkal
causal-final potrohért potrohokért
translative potrohhá potrohokká
terminative potrohig potrohokig
essive-formal potrohként potrohokként
essive-modal — —
inessive potrohban potrohokban
superessive potrohon potrohokon
adessive potrohnál potrohoknál
illative potrohba potrohokba
sublative potrohra potrohokra
allative potrohhoz potrohokhoz
elative potrohból potrohokból
delative potrohról potrohokról
ablative potrohtól potrohoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular		 potrohé potrohoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural		 potrohéi potrohokéi
Possessive forms of potroh
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. potrohom potrohaim
2nd person sing. potrohod potrohaid
3rd person sing. potroha potrohai
1st person plural potrohunk potrohaink
2nd person plural potrohotok potrohaitok
3rd person plural potrohuk potrohaik

Derived terms
  • potrohos

References
  1. potroh 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.)

Further reading
  • potroh 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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