indít

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Hungarian

Etymology

The stem is likely from Proto-Uralic *jome- (to go, to set off)[1] + -dít.[2]

Pronunciation

Verb

indít

  1. (transitive) to start, launch, set off, get underway, set in motion
    Synonym: elindít
    Antonyms: megállít, leállít
  2. (transitive) to prompt (someone) to something (-ra/-re)
    • 2004, Andrey Kurkov, translated by Andrea Tompa, A halál és a pingvin, Budapest: Athenaeum 2000 Kiadó, →ISBN, page 7:
      Viktor előkotort egy gyertyát, meggyújtotta és egy majonézes üvegben az asztalra rakta. A költőien szeszélyes lángocska arra indította, hogy a sötétben papírt és ceruzát keressen.
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Conjugation

Derived terms

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References

  1. ^ Entry #188 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ indít 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

  • indít 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