úszik

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *uje- (swim) + -ik. Cognates include Finnish uida, Estonian ujuma, Mansi уй (uj), Khanty ӱй- (üj-).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈuːsik]
  • Hyphenation: úszik

Verb

úszik

  1. (intransitive) to swim
  2. (intransitive) to float

Conjugation

Synonyms

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

  • átúszik
  • beúszik
  • elúszik
  • kiúszik
  • leúszik
  • megúszik
  • ráúszik

References

  1. Entry #1088 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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