Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Uralic *kulke- (be on the move, move (to land, water)) + -ogat (frequentative verb-forming suffix).[1][2]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈhɒloɡɒt]
  • Hyphenation: ha‧lo‧gat
  • Rhymes: -ɒt

Verb edit

halogat

  1. (transitive) to keep postponing, keep putting off

Conjugation edit

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References edit

  1. ^ Entry #387 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ halogat 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

  • halogat 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