Hungarian

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Etymology

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First attested in c. 1416. From Proto-Uralic *kama (skin)[1] + -oz (verb-forming suffix). [2] Cognates include Finnish kamara.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈhaːmoz]
  • Hyphenation: há‧moz
  • Rhymes: -oz

Verb

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hámoz

  1. (transitive) to peel (to remove the skin or outer covering of)
    narancsot hámozto peel an orange

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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(With verbal prefixes):

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References

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  1. ^ Entry #233 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ hámoz 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

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  • hámoz 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