fűlik

Hungarian

Etymology

Intransitive counterpart of fűt. Older meaning: 'to dry out; to burn out'. From Proto-Ugric *pilɜ (to burn, be on fire).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfyːlik]
  • Hyphenation: fűlik
  • Rhymes: -ik

Verb

fűlik

  1. (intransitive) to heat, get heated (to become warmer)
    Synonyms: melegszik, hevül
    Antonym: hűl
    Ez a szoba jól fűlik.This room heats well.

Usage notes

Most often used in the folksy idiom: nem fűlik a foga hozzá (he/she doesn't feel like it, literally his/her tooth doesn't heat to it).

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • fűlés
  • fűlő

(With verbal prefixes):

  • átfűlik
  • befűlik
  • kifűlik
  • fülled
  • fülleszt
  • fűt

References

  1. fűt in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’), Second, revised and expanded edition, Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2021, page 263, →ISBN. (See also the PDF of its 1st edition.)
  2. Entry #1826 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

Further reading

  • fűlik 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
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