nyal

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Bouyei

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ʰɲɯəᶜ (grass). Cognate with Thai หญ้า (yâa), Northern Thai ᩉ᩠ᨿ᩶ᩣ, Lao ຫຍ້າ (nyā), ᦊᦱᧉ (ẏaa²), Shan ယိူဝ်ႈ (yōe) or ယႃႈ (yāa), Ahom 𑜊𑜢𑜤𑜈𑜫 (jʸüw), 𑜊𑜠 (jʸa), 𑜊𑜡 (jʸā), or 𑜐𑜠 (ña), Zhuang nywj.

Pronunciation

Noun

nyal

  1. grass

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *ńale- (to lick). Cognates include Finnish nuolla. [1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɲɒl]
  • Hyphenation: nyal

Verb

nyal

  1. (transitive) to lick

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

References

  1. ^ Entry #633 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ nyal 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.)