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Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *lewe- (to throw, shoot).[1][2] Cognates inlude Northern Mansi лыӈкве (lyňkwe, to throw, to shoot).

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -løː

Verb

  1. (transitive) to shoot, fire
  2. (impersonal, in third-person plural past form) bang goes to…, the game is up, to be all up with (used with -nak/-nek)

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References

  1. ^ Entry #482 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ 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

  • 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