hápog

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈhaːpoɡ]
  • Hyphenation: há‧pog
  • Rhymes: -oɡ

Verb

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hápog

  1. (intransitive) to quack (to make a sound like a duck, see háp)
  2. (transitive, intransitive, figuratively, of a human) to gasp (to speak in a breathless manner)

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ hápog 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

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  • hápog 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