búvik

Hungarian

Etymology

From a stem of uncertain origin, perhaps from Proto-Finno-Ugric *puke- (to climb, creep)[1][2] + -ik. The original form was , then búik, finally the variants bújik and búvik after the hiatus was filled with j and v, respectively.[3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbuːvik]
  • Hyphenation: bú‧vik
  • Rhymes: -uːvik

Verb

búvik

  1. (intransitive, dialectal, literary) synonym of bújik

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

  • átbúvik
  • bebúvik
  • belebúvik
  • előbúvik
  • idebúvik
  • keresztülbúvik
  • kibúvik
  • lebúvik
  • megbúvik
  • odabúvik
  • összebúvik
  • visszabúvik

References

  1. ^ Entry #809 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ búvik 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.)
  3. ^ búvik in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

Further reading

  • búvik , mostly redirecting to bújik in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
  • búvik, redirecting to bújik in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).