búvik

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

From a stem of uncertain origin, perhaps from Proto-Finno-Ugric *puke- (“to climb, creep”)^[1]^[2] + -ik. The original form was bú, then búik, finally the variants bújik and búvik after the hiatus was filled with j and v, respectively.^[3]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [ˈbuːvik]
Hyphenation: bú‧vik
Rhymes: -uːvik

Verb edit

búvik

(intransitive, dialectal, literary) Synonym of bújik.

Derived terms edit

búvó

(With verbal prefixes):

References edit

^ Entry #809 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
^ búvik in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
^ búvik in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

Further reading edit

búvik , mostly redirecting to bújik in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
búvik , redirecting to bújik in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

[1] Entry #809 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

[2] búvik in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

[3] úvik in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

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