English

Proper noun

Keres

1. (Greek mythology) The goddesses of death, (specifically cruel and violent deaths, including death in battle, by accident, murder or ravaging disease); they numbered in the thousands and were the daughters of Nyx and Erebus, and the sisters of Thanatos and Hypnos. Their Roman counterparts were the Letum or the Tenebrae.

Translations

Cornish

Noun

keres f ‎(singulative keresen)

1. cherries

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Proto-Finno-Ugric root +‎ -s ‎(“frequentative verbalizing suffix”). For the -s suffix, compare olvas ‎(“to read”). Cognates include Finnish kierä ‎(“twisted”), kiero ‎(“twisted”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɛrɛʃ]
• Hyphenation: ke‧res

Verb

keres

1. (transitive) to look for; to seek
2. (transitive) to earn (to receive payment for work)

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (seek): kutat

Derived terms

• keresés
• kereset
• kereshető
• kereskedik
• kereslet
• kerestet

(With verbal prefixes):

References

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