szógyökével

Szógyökével is a linguistic term used in Hungarian to denote the process by which words are derived from a common root (szógyök). In Hungarian, a szógyök is the fundamental part of a word that carries the core meaning, while affixes such as prefixes, suffixes, infixes, or compound elements modify or extend that meaning. The concept is integral to the agglutinative nature of the Hungarian language, where extensive affixation allows for the creation of numerous derivatives from a single root.

The terminology "szógyökével" literally means "with the root word" and is often used in grammatical contexts to analyze word formation. For example, the word "tanuló" (student) derives from the root "tan-" (to learn) with the suffix "-uló". In a similar fashion, "tanítás" (teaching) and "tanítvány" (pupil) share the same root but differ in their suffixation and resulting grammatical categories.

Etymologically, the notion of the root has been central to Hungarian philology since the 19th century. Scholars such as János Beke and Ferenc Koós contributed to a systematic understanding of root usage. Modern Hungarian dictionaries and lexicons, like the Magyar Értelmi Szótár, include entries that explicitly note the root, facilitating the study of word families.

In computational linguistics and natural language processing, identifying szógyök is essential for tasks such as morphological analysis, lemmatization, and language modeling. Tools designed for Hungarian often employ root-based tokenization strategies that improve performance on tasks like part‑of‑speech tagging and machine translation.