recseg

Hungarian

Etymology

From an onomatopoeic (sound-imitative) root + -eg (frequentative suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈrɛt͡ʃɛɡ]
  • Hyphenation: re‧cseg
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Verb

recseg

  1. (intransitive) to crack, creak, crackle (to make a cracking sound, such as wood or ice moving under pressure)
  2. (intransitive) to crackle (of a device producing sound: to make a popping sound)
    A szobában recsegett a rádió.The radio crackled in the room.
    Recsegett a vonal.The line crackled with static.
  3. (transitive, literary) to rasp (to utter in a grating voice)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Compound words
  • recseg-ropog

(With verbal prefixes):

  • megrecseg
  • reccsen

References

  1. recseg 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

  • recseg 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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