-talan

== Hungarian == === Etymology === From the Proto-Uralic *-tt (privative suffix) + *-l (nominal suffix), then in the Ancient Hungarian era the -n (adverbial suffix) was added. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [tɒlɒn] Hyphenation: ta‧lan Rhymes: -ɒn === Suffix === -talan (comparative -talanabb, superlative leg- -talanabb) (adjective-forming suffix) -less, un-, dis- (a privative suffix added to a noun or an adjective to form adjectives with a meaning of lacking something) ‎hajlék (“home”) + ‎-talan → ‎hajléktalan (“homeless”) ‎boldog (“happy”) + ‎-talan → ‎boldogtalan (“unhappy”) ‎arány (“proportion”) + ‎-talan → ‎aránytalan (“disproportionate”) ==== Usage notes ==== (adjective-forming suffix) Variants: -talan is added to back-vowel nouns (occasionally adjectives) -telen is added to front-vowel nouns (occasionally adjectives) -tlan is added to back-vowel nouns (occasionally adjectives) ending in a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-. -tlen is added to front-vowel nouns (occasionally adjectives) ending in a vowel. Final -e changes to -é-. -atlan is added to back-vowel verbs and nouns (occasionally adjectives) -etlen is added to front-vowel verbs and nouns (occasionally adjectives) Using two different suffix variants with the same stem may result in different meanings: gond (“care”) → gondtalan (“carefree”) gond (“care”) → gondatlan (“careless”) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === See also === Appendix:Hungarian suffixes === References ===