Category:Hungarian clippings

Hungarian words that were formed from another word by removing part of it, but without changing the part of speech.

• Category:Hungarian aphetic forms: Hungarian words that underwent aphesis, meaning their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their beginning.
• Category:Hungarian apocopic forms: Hungarian words that underwent apocope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable(s) from their end.
• Category:Hungarian syncopic forms: Hungarian words that underwent syncope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their interior.

Forms where more than one sound is omitted from the end are to be placed here, among "Hungarian clippings", like (in English) ad (advertisement), cable (cablegram), doc (doctor), exam (examination), fax (facsimile), gas (gasoline), gym (gymnastics, gymnasium), memo (memorandum), mutt (muttonhead), pub (public house), and pop (popular music). Types of clipping:

• Category:Hungarian aphetic forms, initial clipping, apheresis, or procope, like (in English) bot (robot), chute (parachute), roach (cockroach), gator (alligator), phone (telephone), pike (turnpike), varsity (university), net (Internet)
• Category:Hungarian syncopic forms, medial clipping, or syncope, like (in English) maths (mathematics) or specs (spectacles); fancy (fantasy) or ma'am (madam)
• Category:Hungarian apocopic forms, final clipping, or apocope.
• complex clipping, like (in English) cablegram (cable telegram), op art (optical art), org-man (organization man), linocut (linoleum cut)

See also Category:Hungarian univerbations and Category:Hungarian contractions.