körül

See also: körül-

Hungarian

Etymology

Lexicalization of Proto-Finno-Ugric *kere (“circle, ring, hoop, tire”) + -l (ablative case suffix).[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈkøryl]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: kö‧rül

Postposition

körül

  1. around, near (in space)
  2. about, around (in estimations)

Derived terms

See also
  • Appendix:Hungarian postpositions

References
  1. Entry #288 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

Further reading
  • körül in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.
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