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teher

Pronunciation: [ˈtɛhɛr]

“teher” is a Hungarian word. Its 6 meanings in English:

noun

  1. burden, weight, load, freight, cargo
  2. burden, load, onus, nuisance
  3. pregnancy
  4. debit
  5. encumbrance, encumberment (an interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage)
  6. construed with mellett or alatt: penalty, punishment (cf. on pain of, under pain of)

Etymology

From the Bavarian trächt variant of Tracht, from tragen (“to carry”), inserting a vowel after t to ease pronunciation and omitting the final -t as a perceived accusative suffix, resulting in tereht, then tereh, and eventually teher in the nominative and several oblique forms by means of metathesis; compare kehely, pehely, boholy, moholy, and (archaic) vehem, the only other words in Hungarian that…

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