gyűlik

Hungarian

Etymology

Probably borrowed from a Chuvash-type Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries)[1] + -ik.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɟyːlik]
  • Hyphenation: gyű‧lik

Verb

gyűlik

  1. (intransitive) to gather, assemble
    Synonyms: csoportosul, tömörül
  2. (intransitive) to be accumulating, be piling up
    Synonym: halmozódik
  3. (intransitive) to fester
    Synonym: gennyesedik

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

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

Further reading

  • gyűlik in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.
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