Tejút

== Hungarian == === Etymology === From tej (“milk”) +‎ út (“way”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈtɛjuːt] Hyphenation: Tej‧út Rhymes: -uːt === Proper noun === Tejút (astronomy) Milky Way Galaxy (our galaxy that we inhabit) Synonym: Tejútrendszer (astronomy) Milky Way (a broad band of diffuse white light, visible in the night sky; our view of the galaxy that we inhabit) ==== Usage notes ==== Some astronomical and geographical terms have both a lowercase (common noun) and a capitalized (proper noun) form. For föld (“ground, soil”)―​Föld (“Earth”), hold (“moon, satellite”)―​Hold (“the Moon”), and nap (“day; sun”)―​Nap (“the Sun”), the lowercase forms are used in the everyday sense and the capitalized forms in the astronomical sense. In other similar pairs, the former refers to generic sense, and the latter specifies the best known referent: egyenlítő (“equator”)―​Egyenlítő (“Equator”), naprendszer (“solar system, planetary system”)―​Naprendszer (“Solar System”), and tejút (“galaxy”, literally “milky way”, but galaxis and galaktika are more common)―​Tejút (“Milky Way”).[1][2][3][4] ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === tejút in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.