legyez

Hungarian

Etymology

From the noun légy (fly) + -ez, its original meaning "to shoo away flies".[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɛɟɛz]
  • Hyphenation: le‧gyez

Verb

legyez

  1. (transitive) to fan (to blow air on something by means of a hand-held fan)

Conjugation

Derived terms

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
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.