Hungarian

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Etymology

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raj (swarm, flock) +‎ -zik (verb-forming suffix)

Pronunciation

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Verb

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rajzik

  1. (intransitive, of insects, birds) to swarm (to move as a swarm)
  2. (intransitive, of crowd of people or vehicles) to stream, flow, flood, rush (to move in large unorganized groups)
    Synonyms: özönlik, hemzseg, hömpölyög, tódul
  3. (intransitive) to hang around someone and showering attention (followed by körül)
    Synonym: legyeskedik
  4. (intransitive, of thoughts, images in someone's mind) to flow, whirl, swirl
    Synonyms: kavarog, csapong

Conjugation

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Although Bárczi and Országh’s dictionary (linked below) claims that its imperative forms are not used, Judit Szépe, Károly Gerstner, and Tamás Szende point it out:[1] The last four verbs (fogamzik ’be conceived’, nemz ’beget’, kirajzik ’hive off’, (el)fajzik ’degenerate’) […] differ from all the rest in that their imperative forms do exist even though their conditionals with vowel insertion are ill‑formed. Hungarian National Corpus[2] provides one such example sentence.[3]

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Szépe, Judit―Tamás Szende―Károly Gerstner. Csuklik, kotlik, hámlik. Megjegyzések a hiányos paradigmájú igék módjelezéséről” (’notes on the modal suffixes on verbs with defective conjugation’). Magyar Nyelv (’Hungarian Language’), vol. 100, no. 3, 2004, pp. 358–367. Link at OSZK. English-language version: “On Defective Verbs and Mood Marking in Hungarian”. Linguistica Uralica, vol. 49, no. 2, 2013, pp. 127–141.
  2. ^ Váradi, Tamás PhD et. al. Magyar nemzeti szövegtár, Hungarian National Corpus. (Free registration required.) Nyelvtudományi Intézet (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary).
  3. ^ A muslincák hada rajzzon körül minden játékost (Let the army of fruit flies swarm around every player)

Further reading

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  • rajzik 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