Negyvenamosios

Negyvenamosios is a term found in historical Hungarian linguistics referring to an archaic ordinal numeral form thought to denote the fortieth item in a sequence. In contemporary Hungarian, the standard ordinal for forty is negyvenedik, and negyvenamosios is not part of modern usage. The form is typically described in studies of older numeral systems and in dictionaries that record obsolete or dialectal variants.

Etymology and form suggest it combines negyven, the word for forty, with an old ordinal suffix resembling -amosios. This suffixal pattern is not productive in modern Hungarian, and negyvenamosios is largely described as a historical or regional remnant rather than a living grammatical category. Because the suffix is not widely attested in later texts, negyvenamosios is often cited as an example of how Hungarian numerals evolved toward the streamlined ordinal endings used today.

Usage and distribution are primarily of interest to philologists and historians of language. The form appears in a narrow range of medieval and early modern manuscripts, legal records, or glossaries, where older orthography and numeral formation lingered. For many readers, negyvenamosios serves as a linguistic fossil illustrating the diversity of Hungarian numeral morphology before standardization.

See also: Hungarian numeral system; ordinal numbers in Hungarian; historical linguistics. References to negyvenamosios are typically found in scholarly works on archaic Hungarian grammar and in comprehensive etymological dictionaries that document obsolete forms.