tapsol

Hungarian

Etymology

From the dialectal verb top ~ tap (to get someone down) + -sol (frequentative suffix). First attested after 1416. [1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɒpʃol]
  • Hyphenation: tap‧sol

Verb

tapsol

  1. (transitive) to clap, applaud (to express approval by clapping)

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

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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