lavíroz

Hungarian

Etymology

From German lavieren.[1] With the suffix -íroz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɒviːroz]
  • Hyphenation: la‧ví‧roz

Verb

lavíroz

  1. (intransitive, nautical) to tack (to manoeuvre a ship through strong winds)
  2. (intransitive, figuratively) to manoeuvre so as to avoid difficulties

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • lavírozás

References

  1. Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
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