civódik

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Hungarian

Etymology

From an onomatopoeia + -ódik (verb-forming suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡sivoːdik]
  • Hyphenation: ci‧vó‧dik

Verb

civódik

  1. (intransitive, literary) to quarrel, quibble, bicker, altercate, wrangle, tiff (with someone -val/-vel, over something -n/-on/-en/-ön) (to disagree with each other noisily over petty things)
    Synonyms: perlekedik, veszekedik, civakodik
    Civódnak egymással.They are bickering with each other.
    Mindig civódnak valamin.They are always quarreling over something.
  2. (intransitive, of birds or small animals, with each other) to squabble

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References

  1. ^ civódik 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.)