fejt

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Ugric *päčɜ- (to part, separate, work itself loose)[1] + -t (causative suffix). [2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɛjt]

Verb

fejt

  1. (transitive) to unstitch, untack (to take out stitches from a fabric)
  2. (transitive) to husk, shell, hull, pod (to remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed)
  3. (transitive, mining) to mine, quarry (to remove (ore, stone) from the ground)
  4. (transitive, of wine) to decant, draw off
  5. (transitive, of dreams) to interpret, explain
  6. (transitive, of puzzles) to solve

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • fejteget
  • fejtés

(With verbal prefixes):

(Compound words):

  • számfejt

References

  1. Entry #712 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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