keres
Cornish
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *kėres (perhaps from a late Proto-Celtic *keresyā) borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Late Latin ceresia, from the neuter plural of ceresium, from Latin cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”). Compare Welsh ceirios, Breton kerez.
Hungarian
Etymology
From the same Proto-Finno-Ugric *kerä (“round, turning; to turn, twist”) stem as kerek, kerít, kerül + -s (frequentative verb-forming suffix). For the -s suffix, compare olvas (“to read”). Cognates include Finnish kierä (“twisted”), kiero (“twisted”).[1][2] For the change of meaning, compare kerget (“to chase, pursue”, possibly related) and Latin ambīre (“to go round; solicit, strive”) and circāre (“to go about, traverse, wander”) → Italian cercare (“to look for”).[3]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkɛrɛʃ]
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: ke‧res
- Rhymes: -ɛʃ
Verb
keres
Conjugation
| 1st person sg | 2nd person sg informal |
3rd person sg, 2nd p. sg formal |
1st person pl | 2nd person pl informal |
3rd person pl, 2nd p. pl formal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicative mood |
Present | Indef. | keresek | keresel | keres | keresünk | kerestek | keresnek |
| Def. | keresem | keresed | keresi | keressük | keresitek | keresik | ||
| 2nd-p. o. | kereslek | ― | ||||||
| Past | Indef. | kerestem | kerestél | keresett | kerestünk | kerestetek | kerestek | |
| Def. | kerestem | kerested | kereste | kerestük | kerestétek | keresték | ||
| 2nd-p. o. | kerestelek | ― | ||||||
| Conditional mood |
Present | Indef. | keresnék | keresnél | keresne | keresnénk | keresnétek | keresnének |
| Def. | keresném | keresnéd | keresné | keresnénk (or keresnők) |
keresnétek | keresnék | ||
| 2nd-p. o. | keresnélek | ― | ||||||
| Subjunctive mood |
Present | Indef. | keressek | keress or keressél |
keressen | keressünk | keressetek | keressenek |
| Def. | keressem | keresd or keressed |
keresse | keressük | keressétek | keressék | ||
| 2nd-p. o. | keresselek | ― | ||||||
| Infinitive | keresni | keresnem | keresned | keresnie | keresnünk | keresnetek | keresniük | |
| Other nonfinite verb forms |
Verbal noun | Present participle | Past participle | Future part. | Adverbial part. | Potential | ||
| keresés | kereső | keresett | keresendő | keresve | kereshet | |||
Derived terms
(With verbal prefixes):
References
- Entry #286 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- keres in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
- keres in Gerstner, Károly (ed.). Új magyar etimológiai szótár. (’New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian’). Beta version. Budapest, MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet / Magyar Nyelvtudományi Kutatóközpont, 2011–2022. (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary). Language abbreviations
Further reading
- keres in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN