kelepel

Hungarian

Etymology

An onomatopoeia + -el (frequentative verb-forming suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkɛlɛpɛl]
  • Hyphenation: ke‧le‧pel

Verb

kelepel

  1. (intransitive, of a stork) to clatter, clapper (to make its characteristic clattering sound when snapping its bills together; see kelep)
  2. (intransitive, of a machine gun) to rattle, clatter (to emit a rattling sound)
    Synonym: kattog
  3. (intransitive, of a mechanism made of wood, especially a mill) to clatter
    Synonym: zakatol
  4. (intransitive, of a human) to rattle (to talk rapidly and idly)
    Synonyms: fecseg, locsog

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • kelepelés

References

  1. 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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