őrül

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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From Old Hungarian *aβril (to go in circles, be dizzy), borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries), compare Uyghur قايرىلماق (qayrilmaq, to wrench, to twist; to lean or incline to one side; to be turned).[1] Cognates include Turkish evirmek (to turn around) and Chuvash авӑр (avăr, whirlpool).[2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈøːryl]
  • Hyphenation: őrül
  • Rhymes: -yl

Verb

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őrül

  1. (intransitive, archaic, rare) to grow crazy, to become mad

Usage notes

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This form normally occurs when a verbal prefix is separated from the verb:

  • őrül (…) bele, bele … őrülbeleőrül
  • őrül (…) meg, meg … őrülmegőrül

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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(With verbal prefixes):

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN
  2. ^ őrül 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.)

Further reading

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