lóhalálában

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Hungarian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Lexicalization of ló (“horse”) +‎ halálában, from halál (“death”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix) +‎ -ban (“in”, inessive case suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ló‧ha‧lá‧lá‧ban
  • Rhymes: -ɒn

Adverb

lóhalálában (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) at full gallop (driving the horses fast, not sparing them)
  2. (figurative) at breakneck speed, headlong, posthaste, hell-for-leather (with extreme haste, as fast as one can)

References

  1. ^ lóhalálában in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

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