8.1.2. Relational and locational adjectives/qualitative modifiers
Relational modifiers are productively derived with the suffixes -i, and -Vs.
| utca-i | verekedés, | kert-es | ház |
| street-ATTR | fighting, | garden-ATTR | house |
’street fight, house with a garden’
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Adjectives derived with the suffix -Vs can also express the property of being supllied, covered or filled with something, e.g.
| homok-os/sziklá-s/virág-os | part |
| sand-ATTR/rock-ATTR/flower-ATTR | shore |
’sandy/rocky/flowered shore’
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Locational modifiers are often derived adjectives and rather define the position of the referent than qualify it.
| felső/belső | rész |
| upper/inner | part |
’upper/inner part’
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Bare noun modifiers can also serve as relational modifiers. However, it is difficult to make a dostinction between syntactic modification and compounding in this case. The examples illlustrate the degrees of structural connection (also reflected by orthography).
| pap-i | palást, | apáca | fátyol, | püspök--süveg |
| priest-ATTR | cloak, | nun | veil, | bishop-cap |
’vestment, wimple, mitre’
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