Hungarian

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Etymology

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First attested in 1870. From an onomatopoeic stem + -ol (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of durrog and duruzsol. Possibly influenced by German durmen, dürmen, dormen (to sleep) (slang).[1][2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈdurmol]
  • Hyphenation: dur‧mol
  • Rhymes: -ol

Verb

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durmol

  1. (intransitive, slang) to nap, to snooze
    Synonym: szunyál

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ durmol 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.
  2. ^ durmol 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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  • durmol 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).
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