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Hungarian
Etymology
folyik (“to flow”) + -va (adverbial participle suffix) + -st (adverb-forming suffix)
Pronunciation
Adverb
folyvást (not comparable)
- (folksy, archaic) always, incessantly, perpetually, continually, on and on
- Synonyms: egyfolytában, folyton, szakadatlanul
- (archaic) fluently
1886, Mór Jókai, Életemből: igaz történetek, humor, örök emlékek, útleírás, page 337:Azóta is dicsértek már meg egypárszor, de olyan jól nem esett egy is, mint az én legelső rektoromé, aki előtt olyan folyvást tudtam olvasni a zsoltárból.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Further reading
- folyvást 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