szel

See also: szél

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *śälä- (to cut, cut up, slice).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsɛl]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛl

Verb

szel

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to slice, cut, carve (e.g. meat)
  2. (transitive) to plough, (US) plow (e.g. the water or its waves)

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

  • átszel
  • felszel
  • kettészel
  • leszel
  • megszel

References

  1. Entry #948 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. szel 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

  • szel 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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