vakol

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Hungarian

Etymology

First attested in 1588. Probably borrowed from German wacken, bewacken + -ol (verb-forming suffix), via Saxon stonemasons.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

vakol

  1. (transitive, construction) to mortar, plaster, render (to cover a wall with a layer of plaster)
    • 2019, Gábor Vida, Ahol az ő lelke, 2nd edition, Budapest: Magvető, →ISBN, page 31:
      A Kruzslitz-villa egykor tágas nappaliját kettéosztó, egyenetlenül vakolt és fehérre meszelt falon egyre-másra sorakoznak a képek, az újra és újra átfestett kolozsvári főtérrel.
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Conjugation

Derived terms

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References

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

Further reading

  • vakol 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