tévelyeg

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Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Ugric *tepɜ- (lose one's way, be wrong, err, make a mistake) [1] + -lyeg (frequentative verb-forming suffix).[2]

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Verb

tévelyeg

  1. (intransitive) to err, stray
  2. (intransitive, literary) to wander, roam (to walk aimlessly, without purpose or goal)

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References

  1. ^ Entry #1861 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ tévelyeg 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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