See also: szél

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *śälä- (to cut, cut up, slice).[1][2]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈsɛl]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛl

Verb edit

szel

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to slice, cut, carve (e.g. meat)
  2. (transitive) to plough, (US) plow (e.g. the water or its waves)

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

(With verbal prefixes):

References edit

  1. ^ Entry #948 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ szel 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.)

Further reading edit

  • szel 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

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