halaszt

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Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhɒlɒst]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ha‧laszt

Verb

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

Derived terms

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References

  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.)