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olló

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Hungarian

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olló

Etymology

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Inherited from Old Hungarian ollo, ollow (kid (of a goat)), which is borrowed from Danube Bulgar *oɣloŭ, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *oɣul-aɣ (young of an animal).[1]

The modern sense of "scissors" is apparently because scissor blades swing like a goat's legs.

Alternatively, from obsolete sense "rafter" (attested in 1669), in which case possibly inherited from Proto-Uralic *ulke (pole, post).[2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈolːoː]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -loː
  • Hyphenation: ol‧ló

Noun

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olló (plural ollók)

  1. scissors (tool used for cutting)

Declension

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Possessive forms of olló
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. ollóm ollóim
2nd person sing. ollód ollóid
3rd person sing. ollója ollói
1st person plural ollónk ollóink
2nd person plural ollótok ollóitok
3rd person plural ollójuk ollóik

Derived terms

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Compound words

References

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  1. ^ Róna-Tas, András; Berta, Árpád; Károly, László (2011), West Old Turkic: Turkic Loanwords in Hungarian (Turcologica; 84), volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pages 638-642
  2. ^ Ante Aikio (2020), Uralic Etymological Dictionary (draft version of entries A–Ć; 1/17/2020)[1], pages 86-87

Further reading

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  • (scissors): olló in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
  • ([dialectal, archaic] fawn, kid [young of a roe or goat]): olló in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.