mosolyog

Hungarian

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Ugric *mućɜ-, *muśɜ- (“to smile”) + -lyog (frequentative verb-forming suffix).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmoʃojoɡ]
  • Hyphenation: mo‧so‧lyog
  • Rhymes: -oɡ

Verb

mosolyog

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to smile (at or about something -n/-on/-en/-ön) (to have a smile on one's face)
    Nem tudom, min mosolyog.I don't know what he's smiling about.

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

  • felmosolyog
  • lemosolyog
  • megmosolyog
  • összemosolyog
  • rámosolyog
  • utánamosolyog
  • végigmosolyog
  • visszamosolyog

See also

  • Appendix:Hungarian words with ly

References

  1. Entry #1811 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. mosolyog 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

  • mosolyog 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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