Hungarian

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Etymology

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From takar (to cover) +‎ -ít (causative suffix). The “to tidy, clean” sense (sense 1) developed from the archaic “to harvest” sense (sense 2), originally in connection with the storing of harvested fruits or the gleaning of grain. First attested in 1513.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈtɒkɒriːt]
  • Hyphenation: ta‧ka‧rít
  • Rhymes: -iːt

Verb

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takarít

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to tidy, clean
  2. (transitive, archaic) to harvest
    Synonyms: behord, betakarít, (archaic) eltakarít
  3. (transitive, rare) to bury (a dead body)
    Synonyms: temet, (archaic) eltakarít

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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(With verbal prefixes):

References

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  1. ^ takarít in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
  2. ^ takarít 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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  • takarít 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