Gyóg

Gyóg is a stem used in Hungarian medical vocabulary. It is not a standalone word, but a productive morpheme that appears in a wide range of terms related to medicine, healing, and pharmacology. The root is historically connected to the verb gyógyít, meaning to heal, and it forms new words by combining with different endings and following morphemes.

In Hungarian orthography the morpheme can appear as gyóg- or gyógy-, depending on the phonological shape of the following element, but both variants share the same semantic field of healing and medicine. This stem underpins a large family of terms used across everyday language, clinical contexts, and industry.

Common words built on this morpheme include gyógyszer (medicine or drug), gyógyszertár (pharmacy), gyógyszerész (pharmacist), gyógyszeripar (pharmaceutical industry), gyógyítás (treatment or healing), gyógyító (healer or therapeutic agent), gyógyhatású (having a healing effect), gyógynövény (medicinal herb), and gyógyászati (medical or therapeutic). The gyógy-related vocabulary extends to broader medical and herbal domains, illustrating how the stem functions as a key building block in describing substances, procedures, and practices aimed at healing.

Overall, gyóg/gyógy serves as a central, descriptive strand in Hungarian, enabling concise expression of concepts connected to medicine, therapy, and healing without existing as a separate lexical item. See also medicine, pharmacology, and herbal medicine for related topics.