hörög

See also: horog

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhørøɡ]
  • Hyphenation: hö‧rög
  • Rhymes: -øɡ

Verb

hörög

  1. (intransitive) to grunt, rattle (of a gravely ill person or animal: to make a snoring-like sound with an open mouth while in pain and struggling with breathing)
  2. (transitive) to say something in a low, guttural voice

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

  • elhörög
  • felhörög

References

  1. hörög 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

  • hörög 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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