kiindul

Hungarian

Etymology

ki- +‎ indul

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkiindul]
  • Hyphenation: ki‧in‧dul
  • Rhymes: -ul

Verb

kiindul

  1. (intransitive) to set off, to depart, to head off, to head out (to leave to an outside location)
    A vonat kiindult az állomásról. ― The train set off from the station.
  2. (intransitive) to start, to take something as its starting point
    Visszajutottunk oda, ahonnan kiindultunk. ― We're back where we started.
  3. (intransitive) to originate, to come (from someone -tól/-től) (to come into existence)
    A kezdeményezés a lányomtól indult ki. ― The initiative came from my daughter.

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Further reading

  • kiindul in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
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