ideg

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *jänte. Cognates include Mansi я̄нтев (â̄ntew, “bowstring”) and Finnish jänne (“tendon, sinew; bowstring”). The original Hungarian meaning was bowstring. The meaning nerve was introduced by Ferenc Toldy during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈidɛɡ]
  • Hyphenation: ideg
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Noun

ideg (plural idegek)

  1. (neuroanatomy) nerve
  2. (archaic) bowstring
  3. (archaic, poetic) string of lute

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Possessive forms of ideg
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. idegem idegeim
2nd person sing. ideged idegeid
3rd person sing. idege idegei
1st person plural idegünk idegeink
2nd person plural idegetek idegeitek
3rd person plural idegük idegeik

Derived terms
Compound words with this term at the beginning
Compound words with this term at the end
Expressions (types of nerves)
Expressions (others)
  • idegeire megy

References
  1. Entry #169 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ideg 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.)
  • Vizi E. Szilveszter, Magyar Orvosi Nyelv. NOK Kiadó, Budapest, 2001

Further reading
  • ideg 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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