illem - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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From the ill- stem of illik +‎ -em (noun-forming suffix). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.[1]

illem (uncountable)

  1. decorum, good manners
  1. ^ illem in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

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