oszt

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See also: -öszt and őszt

Hungarian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈost]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ost

Etymology 1

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Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Finno-Ugric *oća or *ońća (part; to part, share, divide) + -t (causative suffix). Cognates include Finnish osa (part), Estonian osa (part). [1][2]

Verb

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oszt

  1. (transitive) to divide (to separate to parts)
  2. (transitive) to distribute, to dispense, to allocate
  3. (transitive, arithmetic) to divide (to perform the operation of division)
  4. (transitive, arithmetic) to divide (to be a divisor of another number)
    A 6 osztja a 30-at.6 divides 30.
  5. (transitive, card games) to deal
  6. (transitive) to share
    Osztom a véleményedet.I share your opinion.
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Etymology 2

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Shortened from aztán (then), often spelled with an apostrophe: oszt’.

Conjunction

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oszt

  1. (dialectal) then, so

References

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  1. ^ Entry #657 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ oszt 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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  • (to divide, share): oszt 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
  • ([dialectal] then): oszt 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