kétell

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See also: ketell

Hungarian

Etymology

két (two) +‎ -ell (verb-forming suffix)[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

kétell

  1. (transitive) to doubt, question
    Synonyms: (transitive) kétségbe von, (intransitive, with -ban/-ben) kételkedik

Conjugation

Its multiple inflected forms may also be viewed as the conjugation of two verbs (a verb and its alternative form), one with a short l and one with a long ll, in which case the former could be treated as a defective verb, not having a present-tense third-person singular indefinite form, only a definite kétli, compare (meg)sínyli. See also telik and its variant tellik, where the latter is mostly used in long (vowel-epenthetic) forms, namely in the past tense.

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References

  1. ^ kétell 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.)

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