hámoz

Hungarian

Etymology

[around 1416] From Proto-Uralic *kama (skin)[1] + -oz (verb-forming suffix). [2] Cognates include Finnish kamara.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhaːmoz]
  • Hyphenation: há‧moz

Verb

hámoz

  1. (transitive) to peel (to remove the skin or outer covering of)
    narancsot hámozto peel an orange

Conjugation

References

  1. Entry #233 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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