képzel

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkeːbzɛl]
  • Hyphenation: kép‧zel
  • Rhymes: -ɛl

Etymology 1

kép (image) +‎ -el (verb-forming suffix),[1][2] perhaps with an inetymological epenthetic -z-, perhaps with a verb-forming -z, or with a modified form of the stem or the suffix: no more details are given. For the connection with the noun kép, compare German sich einbilden (to imagine) from Bild (image) and French se figurer (to imagine) from image. Another source analyzes it as képez (to form) +‎ -l (frequentative suffix).[3]

Verb

képzel

  1. (transitive) to imagine (into a state or condition, with -nak/-nek, or a place, with case suffixes indicating movement to somewhere)
  2. (transitive) take for, (mistakenly) regard, consider, suppose, believe (with the qualities imagined in the accusative and the target of the concept with -ról/-ről or the qualities imagined with -nak/-nek and the target of the concept in the accusative)
    Minek képzelsz engem? or Mit képzelsz rólam?What do you take me for?
Conjugation
Derived terms

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Etymology 2

From the képz- stem of képez (to form, produce, generate; to train) +‎ -el ([informal, singular] you, personal suffix).

Verb

képzel

  1. Alternative form of képezel, second-person singular indicative present indefinite of képez

References

  1. ^ képzel 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.)
  2. ^ képzel in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
  3. ^ képzel in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

Further reading

  • képzel 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