foszt

Hungarian

Etymology

[around 1395] Probably from Proto-Ugric *puśɜ- (rag; to dissolve, fray) (perhaps from Proto-Finno-Ugric?)[1] + -t (causative suffix).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfost]

Verb

foszt

  1. (transitive) to strip, shell, husk (maize)
  2. (transitive, of feather) to pick, pluck

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

  • foszlik

References

  1. Entry #826 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  2. 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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