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Inherited from Old Czech máj.

máj m inan (relational adjective májový)

  1. (literary) May
    Synonym: květen
    Krásný je svět v máji. ― The world is beautiful in May.

máj f

  1. maypole
    Synonyms: májka, máje

máj on Hungarian Wikipedia

From Proto-Uralic *mëksa, by rebracketing of the possessive form mája into máj + a instead of the earlier má + ja. Cognates include Northern Mansi ма̄йт (mājt), Finnish maksa and Estonian maks.[1][2]

máj (plural májak)

  1. (anatomy) liver (a large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile)
  2. (medicine, attributive usage) hepatic
    májrák ― hepatic cancer
  1. ^ Entry #519 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ máj 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.)

máj m inan

  1. May
    Synonym: (less common) izok
  2. maypole

Ultimately from Latin Māius, the month of the Roman goddess Māia.

máj m inan (relational adjective májový)

  1. the fifth month of the year, May
  2. a tall branchless tree with a wreath atop set up by lads for lasses before May 1
  3. a small tree with a wreath atop, announcing the end of a construction of a house or a building

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