zsugorít

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Ugric *ćuŋkɜ-, *(ćuŋkɜ-rɜ-) (shrink, shrivel (up)) [1] + -ít (frequentative-causative suffix).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʒuɡoriːt]
  • Hyphenation: zsu‧go‧rít
  • Rhymes: -iːt

Verb

zsugorít

  1. (transitive) to shrink

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • zsugorítás

(With verbal prefixes):

References

  1. Entry #1736 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. zsugorít 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

  • zsugorít 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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