rekonstruál

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German rekonstruieren.[1] With the verb-forming suffix -ál.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈrɛkonʃtruaːl]
  • Hyphenation: re‧konst‧ru‧ál
  • Rhymes: -aːl

Verb

rekonstruál

  1. (transitive) to reconstruct, restore (to restore something to its original state using fragmentary parts)
  2. (transitive, figurative) to reconstruct (to attempt to understand an event by recreating or talking through the circumstances)

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading

  • rekonstruál 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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