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forog

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See also: forøg

Hungarian

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Etymology

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Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Uralic *pürke- (to turn, revolve, spin)[1] + -og (frequentative suffix).[2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈforoɡ]
  • Hyphenation: fo‧rog
  • Rhymes: -oɡ

Verb

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forog

  1. (intransitive) to revolve, rotate (continuously)

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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(With verbal prefixes):

Expressions
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References

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  1. ^ Entry #837 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ forog 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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  • forog in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN