vacog

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Hungarian

Etymology

From a root imitating the sound of the chattering teeth of a shivering person + -og (frequentative suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvɒt͡soɡ]
  • Hyphenation: va‧cog

Verb

vacog

  1. (intransitive) to chatter
    Úgy fázott, hogy vacogott a foga.He was so cold that his teeth were chattering.

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

References

  1. ^ vacog 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

  • vacog in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’An Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN