nyel

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Uralic *ńäle-. Cognates include Finnish niellä.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɲɛl]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛl

Verb

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nyel

  1. (transitive) to swallow, gulp

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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(With verbal prefixes):

Expressions

References

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  1. ^ Entry #619 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ nyel 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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  • nyel 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