nyal

See also: nyál

Bouyei

Noun

nyal

  1. grass

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *ńale- (to lick). Cognates include Finnish nuolla. [1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɲɒl]
  • Hyphenation: nyal

Verb

nyal

  1. (transitive) to lick

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • nyalakodik
  • nyalánk
  • nyalás
  • nyaldos
  • nyal-fal
  • nyalint
  • nyalogat

(With verbal prefixes):

  • benyal
  • felnyal
  • kinyal
  • lenyal
  • megnyal
  • végignyal

References

  1. Entry #633 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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