hömpölyög

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Hungarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From an otherwise unattested onomatopoeic stem + -lyög (frequentative verb-forming suffix).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈhømpøjøɡ]
  • Hyphenation: höm‧pö‧lyög
  • Rhymes: -øɡ

Verb[edit]

hömpölyög

  1. (intransitive, of a large body of water) to surge, billow, heave, flow, roll (to move in a slow, wide, undulating mass, with a sweeping power)
    Synonyms: folyik, árad, dől, patakzik
  2. (intransitive, figuratively, of crowd of people or vehicles) to flow (to move up and down in a rolling motion)
    Synonyms: áramlik, ömlik, özönlik, nyomul

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References[edit]

  1. ^ hömpölyög 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.)

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