könyök

Könyék is a Hungarian term that occurs mainly in dialectal or historical language contexts and is not part of standard contemporary vocabulary. The modern word for elbow in Hungarian is könyök, and könyék is generally understood only as a nonstandard or archaic variant rather than a separate, widely used noun. In texts from older periods or from regional speech, some spellings or pronunciations may reflect local phonology, leading to forms such as kö?nyék (with orthographic variation). Because it is not a common modern term, kitapic and dictionary references typically treat könyök as the standard form and list könyék as a potential historical or dialectal variant rather than a distinct lexical item.

Geographically, there are no widely recognized settlements known simply as Könyék in contemporary Hungarian gazetteers. If Könyék appears as part of a longer place name, it is usually in specific local contexts or as a component of a compound toponym, rather than as an independent official name.

In usage, Könyék does not have a separate set of meanings beyond its relationship to the standard word for elbow, and it is rarely encountered in everyday speech today. When encountered in literary or philological material, it often signals archaic spelling, regional speech, or a textual variant rather than a current, separate concept.

See also: könyök, toponymy in Hungarian, dialectology.