halaszt

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *kulke- (“be on the move, move (to land, water)”) + -aszt (“causative verb-forming suffix”). Cognates include Finnish kulkea.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhɒlɒst]
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  • Hyphenation: ha‧laszt

Verb

halaszt

  1. (transitive) to postpone, defer, delay (followed by -ra/-re) (to put off the completion of something until a later time)
    A találkozót a jövő hétre halasztottuk. ― We postponed the meeting to next week.

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References

  1. ↑ Entry #387 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  2. ↑ Gábor Zaicz, Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete, Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN
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