oszlik

Hungarian

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Finno-Ugric *oća or *ońća (part; to part, share, divide) + -lik (frequentative-reflexive suffix). Cognates include Finnish osa (part), Estonian osa (part). [1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈoslik]
  • Hyphenation: osz‧lik
  • Rhymes: -oslik

Verb

oszlik

  1. (intransitive) to be divided
  2. (intransitive) to disperse, dissipate
  3. (intransitive) to decompose

Conjugation

See variations here.

or (less commonly)

Derived terms

  • oszlás

(With verbal prefixes):

References

  1. Entry #657 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. oszlik 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

  • oszlik 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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