amott

Hungarian

Etymology

am (a variant of ám) +‎ ott (“there”)[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈɒmotː]
  • Hyphenation: amott

Adverb

amott

  1. there, over there (it refers to a place farther from the speaker, even farther than indicated with ott (“there”))
    Ott két hajót látok, amott pedig hármat. ― I see two ships there, and three over there.

Synonyms
  • amottan (folksy, poetic)

Derived terms
  • imitt-amott

References
  1. Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN
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