sziszeg

Hungarian

Etymology

An onomatopoeia + -eg (frequentative verb-forming suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsisɛɡ]
  • Hyphenation: szi‧szeg

Verb

sziszeg

  1. (intransitive, of snake, goose) to hiss (to make a hissing sound)
  2. (transitive, of a person) to hiss (to utter something in a quiet hissing sound, with suppressed anger)

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • sziszegés

(With verbal prefixes):

  • elsziszeg
  • kisziszeg
  • odasziszeg
  • rásziszeg
  • visszasziszeg
  • szisszen

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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