mosolyog

Hungarian

Etymology

Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Ugric *mućɜ-, *muśɜ- (“to smile”) + -lyog (frequentative verb-forming suffix).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmoʃojoɡ]
  • Hyphenation: mo‧so‧lyog

Verb

mosolyog

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to smile (at or about something -n/-on/-en/-ön) (to have a smile on one's face)
    Nem tudom, min mosolyog.I don't know what he's smiling about.

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

  • felmosolyog
  • lemosolyog
  • megmosolyog
  • összemosolyog
  • rámosolyog
  • utánamosolyog
  • végigmosolyog
  • visszamosolyog

See also

  • Appendix:Hungarian words with ly

References

  1. Entry #1811 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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