haránt

Hungarian

Etymology

Back-formation from haránték, harántos (“thwart”), two obsolete adjectives, themselves from Proto-Uralic *kurɜ (“curved, skewed, crooked; make curved, skewed, crooked”). Created during the Hungarian language reform which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈhɒraːnt]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: ha‧ránt

Adjective

haránt (not comparable)

  1. transverse (situated or lying across)

Declension
Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative haránt harántak
accusative harántat harántakat
dative harántnak harántaknak
instrumental haránttal harántakkal
causal-final harántért harántakért
translative haránttá harántakká
terminative harántig harántakig
essive-formal harántként harántakként
essive-modal harántul —
inessive harántban harántakban
superessive haránton harántakon
adessive harántnál harántaknál
illative harántba harántakba
sublative harántra harántakra
allative haránthoz harántakhoz
elative harántból harántakból
delative harántról harántakról
ablative haránttól harántaktól

Derived terms

(Compound words):

  • harántemelő
  • harántcsíkolt
  • harántujj

(Expressions):

Adverb

haránt

  1. crosswise

References
  1. Entry #425 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  2. Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN
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