Legendái

Legendái is a Hungarian linguistic form used in reference to legends attributed to a person, group, or locale. In Hungarian, legenda denotes a legend, and various suffixes attach to indicate possession or attribution. Legendái typically translates as their legends or, depending on context, his/her legends. The form is most common in literary and scholarly texts dealing with folklore, biography, or regional storytelling, where researchers discuss the set of stories associated with a figure or community.

Etymology and formation: The term legenda comes from Latin legenda, with Hungarian adaptations shaping related possessive and plural forms. Legendái emerges in writing as a way to refer to the collection or corpus of legends linked to a subject. While not a standalone lexical item outside these contexts, it functions as a grammatical form that ties legends to their owner or origin.

Usage and scope: In folklore studies and historical narratives, legendái may be used to discuss the body of tales believed or passed down about a person, family, village, or cultural group. It can help distinguish between a creator’s own legends and the broader legendary tradition of a community. The phrase often appears in analyses of motifs, transmission, and variation within a regional or biographical framework.

See also: Legend, Folklore, Myth, Cultural heritage.

Note: The exact nuances of Hungarian possessive plural forms can vary with context and regional usage. In published text, legendái is commonly interpreted as “their legends” or, in singular possessive sense, “his/her legends,” depending on the subject being described.