kesereg

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Ugric *kᴕ̈ćɜ (kᴕ̈ćɜ-rɜ) (bitter)[1] + -eg (frequentative suffix).[2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈkɛʃɛrɛɡ]
  • Hyphenation: ke‧se‧reg
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Verb

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kesereg

  1. (intransitive) to grieve, lament over something
  2. (transitive, literary, archaic) to bring up in a bitter way (to talk or write about someone or something with grief)

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Entry #1787 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ kesereg 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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  • kesereg 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