üdvözít

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Hungarian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the obsolete nominal üdvöz (greeted, soluted) +‎ -ít (verb-forming suffix).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈydvøziːt]
  • Hyphenation: üd‧vö‧zít
  • Rhymes: -iːt

Verb

üdvözít

  1. (transitive, intransitive, religion) to save, work the salvation of someone
  2. (transitive, figurative, literary) to beatify (to confer someone great happiness)
  3. (transitive, figurative, higher register) to facilitate, assist (to help effectively, get someone to some goal)

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

References

  1. ^ üdvözít in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
  2. ^ üdvözít in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

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