halaszt

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Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *kulke- (be on the move, move (to land, water)) + -aszt (causative verb-forming suffix). Cognates include Finnish kulkea.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ha‧laszt
  • Rhymes: -ɒst

Verb

halaszt

  1. (transitive) to postpone, defer, delay (followed by -ra/-re) (to put off the completion of something until a later time)
    A találkozót a jövő hétre halasztottuk.We postponed the meeting to next week.

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References

  1. ^ Entry #387 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ halaszt 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

  • halaszt 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