csip-csup
Hungarian
Etymology
A playful reduplication. The first element csip is possibly a form of csepp (“tiny”)[1], the second element csup is a vowel variation of the first.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃipt͡ʃup]
- Hyphenation: csip-‧csup
Adjective
csip-csup (not comparable)
- (colloquial) unimportant, insignificant
- Synonyms: apró-cseprő, jelentéktelen
References
- Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN
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