teher

From the Bavarian trächt variant of Tracht, from tragen (“to carry”), inserting a vowel after t to ease pronunciation and omitting the final -t as a perceived accusative suffix, resulting in tereht, then tereh, and eventually teher in the nominative and several oblique forms by means of metathesis; compare kehely, pehely, boholy, moholy, and (archaic) vehem, the only words with this feature in Hungarian. See also tragacs and trágár for terms related to tragen.

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• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛhɛr]
• Hyphenation: te‧her
• Rhymes: -ɛr

teher (plural terhek)

1. burden, weight, load, freight, cargo

   Synonyms: súly, málha, szállítmány, rakomány

2. (figuratively) burden, load, onus, nuisance

   Synonyms: kényelmetlenség, kellemetlenség, nehézség, gond

3. (in set phrases formed with teherbe or teherben) pregnancy

   Synonym: terhesség

4. (finance, often in set phrases with terhére) debit
5. (law) encumbrance, encumberment (an interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage)

   Synonyms: megterhelés, jelzálog

6. (with a possessive suffix) construed with mellett or alatt: penalty, punishment (cf. on pain of, under pain of)

   Synonyms: büntetés, szankció

• Appendix:Hungarian words with metathesis

• teher 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