lóhalálában

Hungarian

Alternative forms

  • lóhalálban

Etymology

Lexicalization of ló (“horse”) +‎ halálában, from halál (“death”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix) +‎ -ban (“in”, inessive case suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈloːɦɒlaːlaːbɒn]
  • Hyphenation: ló‧ha‧lá‧lá‧ban
  • Rhymes: -ɒn

Adverb

lóhalálában (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) at full gallop (driving the horses fast, not sparing them)
  2. (figurative) at breakneck speed, headlong, posthaste, hell-for-leather (with extreme haste, as fast as one can)

References

  1. ^ lóhalálában 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.

Further reading

  • lóhalálában 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.
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