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
Common words built on this morpheme include gyógyszer (medicine or drug), gyógyszertár (pharmacy), gyógyszerész (pharmacist), gyógyszeripar
Overall, gyóg/gyógy serves as a central, descriptive strand in Hungarian, enabling concise expression of concepts connected