halaszt

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Uralic *kulke- (be on the move, move (to land, water)) + -aszt (causative verb-forming suffix). Cognates include Finnish kulkea.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈhɒlɒst]
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  • Hyphenation: ha‧laszt
  • Rhymes: -ɒst

Verb

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halaszt

  1. (transitive) to postpone, defer, delay (followed by -ra/-re) (to put off the completion of something until a later time)
    A találkozót a jövő hétre halasztottuk.We postponed the meeting to next week.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Compound words

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References

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  1. ^ Entry #387 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ halaszt 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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  • halaszt 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