hápog

Hungarian

Etymology

From an onomatopoeia + -og (frequentative suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhaːpoɡ]
  • Hyphenation: há‧pog
  • Rhymes: -oɡ

Verb

hápog

  1. (intransitive) to quack (to make a sound like a duck, see háp)
  2. (transitive, intransitive, figuratively, of a human) to gasp (to speak in a breathless manner)

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • hápogás

References

  1. hápog 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

  • hápog 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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