fakaszt

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *pakka- (to split, crack, split open, burst) + -aszt (causative suffix). Cognates include Hungarian fakad, Finnish pakahtua (to burst).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɒkɒst]
  • Hyphenation: fa‧kaszt

Verb

fakaszt

  1. (transitive) to cause something to burst
  2. (transitive) to squeeze

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • fakasztás
  • fakasztó

(With verbal prefixes):

  • felfakaszt
  • kifakaszt

References

  1. Entry #693 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  2. 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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