Hungarian

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Etymology

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From an onomatopoeia + -ked (frequentative verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈrɛpkɛd]
  • Hyphenation: rep‧ked
  • Rhymes: -ɛd

Verb

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repked

  1. Alternative form of röpköd:
    1. (intransitive, of birds) to fly quickly from one location to another
    2. (intransitive, of bullets, arrow, stone, etc.) to fly in quick succession
      Mindenhonnan golyók repkedtek.Bullets were flying everywhere.
    3. (intransitive, of light objects in the wind) to fly
      A haja repkedett a szélben.Her hair was flying in the wind.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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(With verbal prefixes):

Further reading

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  • repked 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