hányódik

Hungarian

Etymology

From hány (to hurl) + -ódik (reflexive suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhaːɲoːdik]
  • Hyphenation: há‧nyó‧dik
  • Rhymes: -oːdik

Verb

hányódik

  1. (intransitive) to toss, to be tossed (around) (as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas)
    Synonym: hánykolódik
    Active-voice counterpart: hány
    • 1956, János Pilinszky, Apokrif (“Apocrypha”), translation by Ted Hughes & János Csokits:
      De virrasztván a számkivettetésben, / mert nem alhatom akkor éjszaka, / hányódom én, mint ezer levelével, / és szólok én, mint éjidőn a fa:
      But keeping vigil in banishment / because that night / I cannot sleep I toss / as the tree with its thousand leaves / and at dead of night I speak as the tree:
  2. (intransitive) to drift (to move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc; to move haphazardly without any destination)
    Synonyms: sodródik, vetődik
  3. (intransitive) to kick around (to wander loose; to float around; to hang around)
    Synonym: kallódik
  4. (intransitive, figurative, literary) to struggle or wrestle with oneself, hesitate, vacillate, waver, waffle
    Synonyms: vívódik, töpreng, ingadozik, tétovázik

Conjugation

Further reading

  • hányódik 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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