tévelyeg

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Ugric *tepɜ- (lose one's way, be wrong, err, make a mistake) [1] + -lyeg (frequentative verb-forming suffix).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈteːvɛjɛɡ]
  • Hyphenation: té‧ve‧lyeg
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Verb

tévelyeg

  1. (intransitive) to err, stray
  2. (intransitive, literary) to wander, roam (to walk aimlessly, without purpose or goal)

Conjugation

Derived terms

See also

  • Appendix:Hungarian words with ly

References

  1. Entry #1861 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. tévelyeg 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

  • tévelyeg 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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