tapint

Hungarian

Etymology

From the dialectal verb top ~ tap (to push down, to walk on all fours) of onomatopoeic (sound-imitative) origin + -int (instantaneous-causative verb-forming suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɒpint]
  • Hyphenation: ta‧pint

Verb

tapint

  1. (transitive) to touch

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

  • kitapint
  • megtapint
  • rátapint

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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