kerül

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See also: kerul

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *kerä (round, turning; turn, twist)[1] + -ül (frequentative-reflexive suffix). Compare Finnish kierä, kiero, kiertää.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkɛryl]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ke‧rül

Verb

kerül

  1. (intransitive) to get (to somewhere, to a location or into a situation -ba/-be)
    börtönbe kerülto get into jail
    nehéz helyzetbe kerülto get into a difficult situation
  2. (intransitive) to detour, to go on a byway (to go on a longer way than the shortest)
  3. (transitive) to avoid someone or something
    kerüli a nyilvánosságotto shun publicity
  4. (intransitive) to cost (something -ba/-be)
    Mennyibe kerül?How much does it cost?

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Related terms

References

  1. ^ Entry #286 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ kerül 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.)