kesereg

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Ugric *kȣ̈ćɜ (kȣ̈ćɜ-rɜ) (bitter)[1] + -eg (frequentative suffix).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkɛʃɛrɛɡ]
  • Hyphenation: ke‧se‧reg

Verb

kesereg

  1. (intransitive) to grieve, lament over something
  2. (transitive, literary, archaic) to bring up in a bitter way (to talk or write about someone or something with grief)

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • kesergés

References

  1. Entry #1787 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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