küzd

Hungarian

FWOTD – 11 December 2013

Etymology

From Proto-Ugric or perhaps from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kȣ̈śɜ (“competition, game; to compete, play”) [1] + -d (“frequentative suffix”).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkyzd]
  • Hyphenation: küzd

Verb

küzd

  1. (intransitive) to struggle, to strive (to labour in difficulty)
    • 1861, Imre Madách, The Tragedy of Man (Az ember tragédiája), play, scene 15:
      Mondottam ember: küzdj és bízva bízzál! - I have told you, Man: strive on, and trust!
  2. (intransitive) to fight

Conjugation

or

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

  • átküzd
  • felküzd
  • kiküzd
  • leküzd
  • megküzd
  • végigküzd

References

  1. ↑ Entry #447 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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