bátya

Etymology
Of debated origin. Either a coinage of baby language or borrowed from a language, see 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)   older brother, big brother
 * 2)   uncle an address to an older male
 * 1)   uncle an address to an older male

Usage notes
Similarly to the case of (“uncle”, dated), suffixed forms of bátya have been reinterpreted (reanalyzed) as having the stem báty (compare, currently standard), so the latter forms (báty and nagybáty) are the usual base forms today. Nevertheless, relationship terms are normally used in Hungarian with possessive suffixes (see the second chart above).