mendemonda

mende + monda, a reduplication of monda (“s/he said”), the obsolete past tense of mond (“to say”). Its original form was probably monda-monda and it referred to the repeated saying of a story or news. The vowels dissimilated in the first part.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛndɛmondɒ]
• Hyphenation: men‧de‧mon‧da
• Rhymes: -dɒ

mendemonda (plural mendemondák)

1. (derogatory) hearsay, scuttlebutt, gossip, rumor, idle chatter (information that was heard by one person about another that cannot be adequately substantiated)

   Synonyms: híresztelés, szóbeszéd, pletyka, mesebeszéd

• monda

• Appendix:Hungarian reduplications and coordinated pairs

• mendemonda 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