modor

From mód +‎ -r (obsolete noun-forming suffix). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈmodor]
• Hyphenation: mo‧dor
• Rhymes: -or

modor (plural modorok)

1. manners

   Synonym: viselkedés

   1. good manners

      Synonyms: illem, illendőség, jólneveltség, jó modor

2. manner, style (following the style of a particular person, e.g. an author, or that of a people)

   Synonym: stílus

3. tone, language, tenor, note

   Synonyms: hangnem, hangvétel, hang, tónus, beszédmód, kifejezésmód

• modor 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

• modur, moder, moddor

From Proto-West Germanic *mōder, from Proto-Germanic *mōdēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Cognate with Old Frisian mōder, Old Saxon mōdar, Old Dutch muoder, Old High German muoter, Old Norse móðir.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoː.dor/

mōdor f

1. mother

• bēomōdor
• mōdorlēas
• mōdorlīċ
• mōdorlufu
• Mōdra niht

• Middle English: moder
  • English: mother, mither (Scotland and Northern England)
    • Australian Kriol: motha
    • → Japanese: マザー (mazā)
    • → Korean: 마더 (madeo)
  • Scots: mither, medder, midder, moder, moeder (Shetland), mideer, mother
  • Yola: moodher, moother, moothar