emik

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *ime- (to suck) + -ik. Cognate with Finnish imeä.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɛmik]
  • Hyphenation: emik
  • Rhymes: -ɛmik

Verb

emik

  1. (obsolete) to suck
    Synonym: szopik

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Entry #148 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. emik 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.)

Further reading

  • emik in Czuczor, Gergely and János Fogarasi: A magyar nyelv szótára (’A Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Pest: Emich Gusztáv Magyar Akadémiai Nyomdász, 1862–1874.
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