-lat

See also: lat, LAT, lát, laț, lat., Lat., and Appendix:Variations of "lat"

Hungarian

Etymology

-l (verb-forming suffix) + -at (noun-forming suffix), created during the Hungarian language reform which took place in the 18th–19th centuries. The neologists popularized it based on verbs ending in -l and further derived with -at/-et.[1]

Suffix

-lat

  1. (noun-forming suffix) Added to different parts of speech to form a noun.
    magas (“tall”) → magaslat (“elevation”)

Usage notes
  • (noun-forming suffix) Harmonic variants:
    -lat is added to a back vowel word
    -let is added to a front vowel word

Derived terms
► <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Hungarian_nouns_suffixed_with_-lat' title='Category:Hungarian nouns suffixed with -lat'>Hungarian nouns suffixed with -lat</a>

See also
  • Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

References
  1. 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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