akad

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See also: Akad and Akad.

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Ugric *ϑᴕkkɜ (get stuck; get at, meet)[1] + -ad (frequentative suffix).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɒkɒd]
  • Hyphenation: akad

Verb

akad

  1. (intransitive) to get stuck (in something -n/-on/-en/-ön)
    Active-voice counterpart: akaszt
    torkán akadt a szóthe words stuck in his/her throat
  2. (intransitive) to occur, there is
    Akadt valami probléma?Have there been problems?
  3. (intransitive) to come across, find (something -ra/-re)
    A nyomunkra akadtak.They've found us.

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

References

  1. ^ Entry #1752 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ akad 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.)