kerít

Hungarian

Etymology

From the same Proto-Finno-Ugric *kerä (round, turning; turn, twist)[1] as kering and kerül + -ít (causative suffix). [2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkɛriːt]
  • Hyphenation: ke‧rít
  • Rhymes: -iːt

Verb

kerít

  1. (transitive) to fence in, enclose, surround
  2. (transitive) to procure, get hold of, obtain
    Synonym: szerez
    pénzt kerítto get hold of some money

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

Expressions
  • nagy feneket kerít

References

  1. Entry #286 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. kerít 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

  • kerít 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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