alszik

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Hungarian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *ade- + -ik.[1][2]

Pronunciation

Verb

alszik

  1. (intransitive) to sleep
    Synonyms: az igazak álmát alussza; (hypocoristic) csicsikál; (informal) durmol; (archaic or poetic) hál, meghál; (folksy, jocular) húzza a lóbőrt
    Jól aludtál?Have you slept well?

Usage notes

Its transitive forms are possible only in certain phrases (see those with alussza among the Expressions below) as well as with certain verbal prefixes: kialussza magát (‘get enough sleep’), elalussza … (‘have some body part gone to sleep’, i.e. numb from the wrong position), végigalussza …, átalussza … (‘sleep through the night’, ‘sleep through the new year’) etc..

Conjugation

Troponyms

Derived terms

(From its stems al-, alv-, alud-, or alusz-):

(With verbal prefixes):

Expressions

References

  1. ^ alszik in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
  2. ^ Entry #660 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

Further reading

  • alszik 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
  • alszik in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).