gyere

Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin. It is used in the subjunctive mode of jön (“to come”) instead of the regular subjunctive forms. Its original form may have been jerj. The leading j- to gy- assimilation is similar to jön →gyön, a dialectal variant. For the dropping of the final j compare eper, szeder.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈɟɛrɛ]
  • Hyphenation: gye‧re

Verb

gyere

  1. second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of jön
    Gyere velünk! ― Come with us!

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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