lepke

Hungarian

Peablue (Lampides boeticus) at Osaka, Japan

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *lüppe (butterfly). Cognates include Southern Mansi läpäχ, Sosva Mansi ла̄панты (lāpanti, butterfly), Finnish liippo (butterfly), and Eastern Mari лыве (ləve, butterfly).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɛpkɛ]
  • Hyphenation: lep‧ke

Noun

lepke (plural lepkék)

  1. butterfly
  2. moth

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative lepke lepkék
accusative lepkét lepkéket
dative lepkének lepkéknek
instrumental lepkével lepkékkel
causal-final lepkéért lepkékért
translative lepkévé lepkékké
terminative lepkéig lepkékig
essive-formal lepkeként lepkékként
essive-modal
inessive lepkében lepkékben
superessive lepkén lepkéken
adessive lepkénél lepkéknél
illative lepkébe lepkékbe
sublative lepkére lepkékre
allative lepkéhez lepkékhez
elative lepkéből lepkékből
delative lepkéről lepkékről
ablative lepkétől lepkéktől
Possessive forms of lepke
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. lepkém lepkéim
2nd person sing. lepkéd lepkéid
3rd person sing. lepkéje lepkéi
1st person plural lepkénk lepkéink
2nd person plural lepkétek lepkéitek
3rd person plural lepkéjük lepkéik

Derived terms

See also

References

  1. Entry #508 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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