zokog

Hungarian

Etymology

From a root imitating the hiccup-like sound accompanying loud sobbing + -og (frequentative suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈzokoɡ]
  • Hyphenation: zo‧kog

Verb

zokog

  1. (intransitive) to sob
  2. (transitive) to say something while sobbing

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

  • átzokog
  • elzokog
  • felzokog
  • kizokog
  • végigzokog

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 963 7094 01 6
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