okvetlen

Hungarian

Etymology

Shortened from the archaic okvetetlen, from ok (“excuse, pretext”) +‎ vetetlen (“unsown”), from vet (“to sow”) +‎ -etlen (“-less, without”, privative adjective forming suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈokvɛtlɛn]
  • Hyphenation: ok‧vet‧len
  • Rhymes: -ɛn

Adverb

okvetlen (not comparable)

  1. synonym of okvetlenül

References

  1. ^ okvetlen 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

  • okvetlen 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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