hagy

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Uralic *kaďa-.[1][2]

Alternative forms

Verb

hagy

  1. (transitive) to let, to allow
    Synonym: enged
  2. (transitive) to leave (something somewhere)
    Synonym: (if out of forgetfulness) felejt
    • 1964, J. D. Salinger, “Zabhegyező”, in Judit Gyepes, transl., The Catcher in the Rye, Budapest: Európa Könyvkiadó, published 1998, →ISBN, page 7:
      Reggel mentünk be New Yorkba, a McBurney-iskolával volt az összecsapás. Csak aztán mégse. A tőröket, az egész felszerelést, minden vacakot azon a rohadt földalattin hagytam.
      We’d gone in to New York that morning for this fencing meet with McBurney School. Only, we didn’t have the meet. I left all the foils and equipment and stuff on the goddam subway.
  3. (transitive) to leave, to bequeath something to someone (-ra/-re)
    Synonyms: örökül hagy, ráhagy
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Etymology 2

Adverb

hagy (not comparable)

  1. (dialectal) Synonym of hadd (let me/us/him/her/it/them (do something))

References

  1. ^ Entry #221 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ hagy 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

  • (to let): hagy 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
  • (in requests ): hagy , redirecting to hadd 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