kerít

Hungarian

Etymology

From the same Proto-Finno-Ugric *kerä (round, turning; turn, twist)[1] as kering and kerül + -ít (causative suffix). [2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkɛriːt]
  • Hyphenation: ke‧rít

Verb

kerít

  1. (transitive) to fence in, enclose, surround
  2. (transitive) to procure, get hold of, obtain
    Synonym: szerez
    pénzt kerítto get hold of some money

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

  • bekerít
  • elkerít
  • előkerít
  • körülkerít
  • megkerít
  • rákerít

References

  1. Entry #286 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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