vacog

Hungarian

Etymology

From a root imitating the sound of the chattering teeth of a shivering person + -og (frequentative suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvɒt͡soɡ]
  • Hyphenation: va‧cog

Verb

vacog

  1. (intransitive) to chatter
    Úgy fázott, hogy vacogott a foga.He was so cold that his teeth were chattering.

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • vacogás
  • vacogtat

(With verbal prefixes):

  • belevacog
  • megvacog
  • összevacog

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

Further reading

  • vacog in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.
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