kézen

Kézen is a Hungarian inflected form of the noun kéz (hand). It corresponds to the adessive case and expresses a locative sense equivalent to “on the hand” or “at hand” in English. As a case form, kézen is not a separate dictionary item but a grammatical ending attached to the stem kéz. In standard usage, the adessive form appears most clearly in phrases describing position or proximity, such as when something is described as being at hand.

In practice, kézen is often encountered in fixed expressions and in constructions that convey immediacy or accessibility. For example, it can appear in phrases that indicate something is readily available or within reach. When combined with possessive suffixes, forms related to kézen can be used to describe possession relative to the hand (for instance indicating “on one’s hand”), though the exact realizations depend on the surrounding morphology and vowel harmony.

Kézen is thus primarily a grammatical tool within Hungarian morphology rather than a standalone lexical word. Its relevance lies in signaling location or proximity relative to the hand, and it participates in the broader system of Hungarian case endings that express spatial relations. The form often appears in conjunction with other case endings to yield related meaning (into the hand, in the hand, on the hand, and so forth), all deriving from the same noun base kéz.