Hangsúlyára

Hangsúlyára is a Hungarian noun form used in linguistic and rhetorical discussion. It stems from hangsúly, meaning emphasis or stress, with the possessive suffix and the -ra/-re directional suffix. The resulting form, hangsúlyára, roughly means “to its emphasis” or “onto its emphasis” and is used when specifying the focus or target of emphasis within a sentence, phrase, or word.

Etymology and meaning: hangsúly combines hang (sound) and súly (weight), conveying the idea of the weight or prominence given to a sound or segment. The suffix -ára marks a direction or focus in relation to that emphasis. In scholarly writing, hangsúlyára is employed to discuss where emphasis falls or what element is being stressed in discourse or prosody.

Usage: In Hungarian analysis, the term appears in contexts such as phonology, syntax, and rhetoric to indicate which part of a linguistic unit carries prosodic focus. While standard Hungarian phonology assigns primary stress most often to the first syllable, discussions about focus, emphasis, or contrast may reference hangsúlyára to point to the exact element under consideration. For example, a researcher might say they are examining the hangsúlyára of a word within a sentence or the hangsúlyára of a clause in a passage.

See also: Stress (phonology), Hungarian language, Prosody.