szerkeszt

Hungarian

Etymology

From the obsolete verb szerkeszik (“to join someone; to be devoted to someone”) (the -t ending is probably a causative suffix), from the obsolete szerk (“to join”) where the -k ending is an instantaneous suffix, from the Proto-Uralic participle *śerɜ (“row, order”), also the origin of the noun szer (“tool”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsɛrkɛst]
  • Hyphenation: szer‧keszt

Verb

szerkeszt

  1. (transitive) to construct, build of many parts with precision
  2. (transitive, geometry) to construct
  3. (transitive) to edit (to change a text or a document)

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ Entry #957 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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