kerít

Hungarian

Etymology

From the same Proto-Finno-Ugric root *kerä (“round, turning; turn, twist”)[1] as kering and kerül +‎ -ít (“causative suffix”). [2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkɛriːt]
  • Hyphenation: ke‧rít

Verb

kerít

  1. to fence in, enclose, surround
  2. to procure, get hold of
    pénzt kerít - get some money

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

  • bekerít
  • elkerít
  • előkerít
  • körülkerít
  • megkerít
  • rákerít

References

  1. ↑ Entry #286 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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