keres

See also: Keres, kérés, and kereş

Cornish

Noun

keres f (singulative keresen)

  1. cherries

Hungarian

Etymology

From the same Proto-Finno-Ugric *kerä (round, turning; to turn, twist) stem as kerek kerít, kerül + -s (frequentative verb-forming suffix). For the -s suffix compare olvas (to read). Cognates include Finnish kierä (twisted), kiero (twisted).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkɛrɛʃ]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ke‧res

Verb

keres

  1. (transitive) to look for; to seek
  2. (transitive) to earn (to receive payment for work)

Conjugation

Synonyms

Derived terms

With verbal prefixes
  • agyonkeres
  • előkeres
  • felkeres
  • fölkeres
  • hozzákeres
  • kikeres
  • megkeres
  • rákeres
  • szétkeres
  • túlkeres
  • utánkeres
  • végigkeres
  • visszakeres
  • összekeres

References

  1. Entry #286 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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