téveszt

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Ugric *tepɜ- (“lose one's way, be wrong, err, make a mistake”) [1] +‎ -eszt (“causative suffix”). [2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈteːvɛst]
  • Hyphenation: té‧veszt

Verb

téveszt

  1. (transitive) to miss, to make a mistake

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • tévesztés

(With verbal prefixes):

  • eltéveszt
  • megtéveszt

References

  1. ↑ Entry #1861 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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