teher

Hungarian

Etymology

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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Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	teher	terhek
accusative	terhet	terheket
dative	tehernek	terheknek
instrumental	teherrel	terhekkel
causal-final	teherért	terhekért
translative	teherré	terhekké
terminative	teherig	terhekig
essive-formal	teherként	terhekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	teherben	terhekben
superessive	terhen	terheken
adessive	tehernél	terheknél
illative	teherbe	terhekbe
sublative	teherre	terhekre
allative	teherhez	terhekhez
elative	teherből	terhekből
delative	teherről	terhekről
ablative	tehertől	terhektől
non-attributive possessive – singular	teheré	terheké
non-attributive possessive – plural	teheréi	terhekéi

Possessive forms of teher

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	terhem	terheim
2nd person sing.	terhed	terheid
3rd person sing.	terhe	terhei
1st person plural	terhünk	terheink
2nd person plural	terhetek	terheitek
3rd person plural	terhük	terheik

Derived terms

• terhel
• terhes

Compound words

• teherautó
• teherhajó
• teherlift

Expressions

• teherbe ejt
• teherbe esik
• terhe mellett
• terhet ró
• terhére esik
• terhére ír
• terhére ró
• terhére van

See also

• Appendix:Hungarian words with metathesis

Further reading

• teher in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.