búvik

Hungarian

Etymology

From a stem of uncertain origin, perhaps from Proto-Finno-Ugric *puke- (“to climb, creep”)[1][2] + -ik. The original form was bú, then búik, finally the variants bújik and búvik after the hiatus was filled with j and v, respectively.[3]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈbuːvik]
  • Hyphenation: bú‧vik
  • Rhymes: -uːvik

Verb

búvik

  1. (intransitive, dialectal, literary) Synonym of bújik.

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

  • átbúvik
  • bebúvik
  • belebúvik
  • előbúvik
  • idebúvik
  • keresztülbúvik
  • kibúvik
  • lebúvik
  • megbúvik
  • odabúvik
  • összebúvik
  • visszabúvik

References
  1. Entry #809 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. búvik in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)
  3. búvik in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

Further reading
  • búvik , mostly redirecting to bújik in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • búvik , redirecting to bújik in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)
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