messze

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *mećä (“edge, side of something”). Cognates include Estonian mets (“forest”) and Sami miehćse (“far”).[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛsːɛ]
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  • Hyphenation: mesz‧sze

Adjective

messze (comparative messzebb, superlative legmesszebb)

  1. far (distant from something; used with -tól/-től)

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References
  1. Entry #532 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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