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hüppög

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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An onomatopoeia + -ög (frequentative verb-forming suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈhypːøɡ]
  • Hyphenation: hüp‧pög
  • Rhymes: -øɡ

Verb

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hüppög

  1. (intransitive, mainly of a child or a woman) to cry, sob softly and quietly, with still sniffing and tiny hiccup-like sounds, but more or less calming down
  2. (transitive) to say something while sobbing quietly

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ hüppög 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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  • hüppög 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