hápog

Hungarian

Etymology

From an onomatopoeia + -og (frequentative suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhaːpoɡ]
  • Hyphenation: há‧pog

Verb

hápog

  1. (intransitive) to quack (to make a sound like a duck, see háp)
  2. (transitive, intransitive, figuratively, of a human) to gasp (to speak in a breathless manner)

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • hápogás

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
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