haránt

Hungarian

Back-formation from haránték, harántos (“thwart”), two obsolete adjectives, themselves from Proto-Uralic *kurɜ (“curved, skewed, crooked; make curved, skewed, crooked”). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.^[1]^[2]

haránt

Compound words

haránt (not comparable)

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	haránt	harántak
accusative	harántat	harántakat
dative	harántnak	harántaknak
instrumental	haránttal	harántakkal
causal-final	harántért	harántakért
translative	haránttá	harántakká
terminative	harántig	harántakig
essive-formal	harántként	harántakként
essive-modal	harántul	—
inessive	harántban	harántakban
superessive	haránton	harántakon
adessive	harántnál	harántaknál
illative	harántba	harántakba
sublative	harántra	harántakra
allative	haránthoz	harántakhoz
elative	harántból	harántakból
delative	harántról	harántakról
ablative	haránttól	harántaktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	haránté	harántaké
non-attributive possessive - plural	harántéi	harántakéi

Compound words

Expressions

^ Entry #425 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
^ haránt 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.)