okik

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈokik]
  • Hyphenation: okik
  • Rhymes: -okik

Verb

okik

  1. (intransitive, obsolete, dialectal) to learn one's lesson
    Synonyms: okul, tanul
    Tapasztalás által okik az ember.One learns through experience.

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. okik 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

  • okik in Czuczor, Gergely and János Fogarasi: A magyar nyelv szótára (’A Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Pest: Emich Gusztáv Magyar Akadémiai Nyomdász, 1862–1874.
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