Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Ugric *katɜ- (to become fat)[1] + -ik.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈhiːzik]
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  • Hyphenation: hí‧zik
  • Rhymes: -iːzik

Verb edit

hízik

  1. (intransitive) to put on weight, fatten, to become fatter
    Antonym: fogy

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

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References edit

  1. ^ Entry #1772 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

Further reading edit

  • hízik 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