oszlik

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Finno-Ugric *oća or *ońća (part; to part, share, divide) + -lik (frequentative-reflexive suffix). Cognates include Finnish osa (part), Estonian osa (part). [1][2]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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oszlik

  1. (intransitive) to be divided
  2. (intransitive) to disperse, dissipate
  3. (intransitive) to decompose

Conjugation

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See variations here.

or (less commonly)

Derived terms

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(With verbal prefixes):

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References

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  1. ^ Entry #657 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ oszlik 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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  • oszlik 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