hanyatt-homlok
Hungarian
Etymology
First attested in c. 1493. hanyatt + homlok, meaning hastily rushing back and forth.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈhɒɲɒthomlok]
- Hyphenation: ha‧nyatt-hom‧lok
- Rhymes: -ok
Adverb
hanyatt-homlok (not comparable)
- headlong, helter-skelter (rashly; precipitately; without deliberation, in haste, hastily)
- Synonyms: ijedten, fejvesztett sietséggel
- hanyatt-homlok menekül ― to flee in a panic; take to one's heels
- hanyatt-homlok tesz valamit ― to scramble to do something
- head over heels (tumbling upside down in the air)
References
- hanyatt-homlok 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.)
- hanyatt-homlok in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN
Further reading
- hanyatt-homlok in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
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