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öreg

Pronunciation: [ˈørɛɡ]

“öreg” is a Hungarian word. Its 8 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. old (not young, having existed or lived for a long time; compare régi (“not new”))
  2. great, big, grand
  3. dense
  4. late

noun

  1. old person
  2. the leader of a community
  3. (colloquial) one’s parents, old man or old lady
  4. (colloquial) man, bro (form of address for a person of roughly equal age and status)

Etymology

From Proto-Ugric *üräŋɜ (“big, old”), whence also Proto-Khanty *ürǝɣ (> Northern Khanty ар (ar, “much, many”)) and Proto-Mansi *ärǝɣ (> Northern Mansi арыг (aryg, “extra, excess”)), derived from Proto-Uralic *ürä- (“big, old”) (whence Proto-Samoyedic *iräj (“grandfather”)). Alternatively, and less likely, from a Turkic language. Compare Turkish iri, Erzya сыре (sïre).

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