csip-csup

Hungarian

Etymology

A playful reduplication. The first element csip is possibly a form of csepp (“tiny”)[1], the second element csup is a vowel variation of the first.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃipt͡ʃup]
  • Hyphenation: csip-‧csup

Adjective

csip-csup (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) unimportant, insignificant
    Synonyms: apró-cseprő, jelentéktelen

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
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.