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-zet

-zet

Albanian

Numeral

-zet

  1. (cardinal) twenty
Related terms

Hungarian

Etymology

-z ‎(“verb suffix”) +‎ -et ‎(“nominal suffix”) [1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [zɛt]

Suffix

-zet

  1. (noun suffix) Added to a noun to form an abstract noun or a collective noun.
    kép ‎(“picture”) → képzet ‎(“idea, image, notion”)

Usage notes

  • (noun suffix) Variants:
    -zat is added to back vowel nouns
    -zet is added to front vowel nouns

Derived terms

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Hungarian_nouns_suffixed_with_-zet'>Hungarian nouns suffixed with -zet</a>

See also

  • Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

References

  1. ↑ Gábor Zaicz, Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete, Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, ISBN 963 7094 01 6

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *wīdzatī, from Proto-Indo-European *ṷīḱṃtī ‎(“twenty”). Cognate to Ancient Greek εἴκοσι ‎(eíkosi), Latin viginti and Sanskrit विंशति ‎(viṁśatí).

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