tévelyeg

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Ugric *tepɜ- (lose one's way, be wrong, err, make a mistake) [1] + -lyeg (frequentative verb-forming suffix).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈteːvɛjɛɡ]
  • Hyphenation: té‧ve‧lyeg

Verb

tévelyeg

  1. (intransitive) to err, stray
  2. (intransitive, literary) to wander, roam (to walk aimlessly, without purpose or goal)

Conjugation

Derived terms

See also

  • Appendix:Hungarian words with ly

References

  1. Entry #1861 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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