tik-tak

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German ticktack.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈtiktɒk]
  • Hyphenation: tik-‧tak

Interjection

tik-tak

  1. tick tock (the sound of a ticking clock)

Derived terms
  • tiktakol

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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