Hungarian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finno-Ugric *pëkka- (to split, crack, split open, burst)[1] + -ad (frequentative suffix). Cognates include Finnish pakahtua (to burst).[2][3][4]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈfɒkɒd]
  • Hyphenation: fa‧kad
  • Rhymes: -ɒd

Verb

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fakad

  1. (intransitive) to arise, originate, source
    Synonym: ered
  2. (intransitive, with -ra/-re or adverbial participle) to break into, burst, spring, blossom
    könnyekre fakadto burst into tears
    sírva fakadto burst into tears

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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(With verbal prefixes):

Expressions
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References

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  1. ^ Aikio, Ante. The Finnic ‘secondary e-stems’ and Proto-Uralic vocalism (2015), SUSA 95
  2. ^ Entry #693 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  3. ^ fakad 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.)
  4. ^ Bomhard, Allan R. and John C. Kerns. The Nostratic Macrofamily: A Study in Distant Linguistic Relationship. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994. Online.

Further reading

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  • fakad 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
  • fakad 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).