búvik

Hungarian

Etymology

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

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

Verb

búvik

(intransitive, dialectal, literary) Synonym of bújik.

Derived terms

búvó

(With verbal prefixes):

References

^ 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

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 Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), 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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