kétell

See also: ketell

Hungarian

Etymology

két (two) + -ell (verb-forming suffix)[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkeːtɛlː]
  • Hyphenation: ké‧tell
  • Rhymes: -ɛlː

Verb

kétell

  1. (transitive) to doubt, question

Conjugation

Its multiple inflected forms may also be viewed as the conjugation of two verbs (a verb and its alternative form), one with a short l and one with a long ll, in which case the former could be treated as a defective verb, not having a present-tense third-person singular indefinite form, only a definite kétli, compare (meg)sínyli. See also telik and its variant tellik, where the latter is mostly used in long (vowel-epenthetic) forms, namely in the past tense.

Derived terms

References

  1. kétell in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

  • kétell in Pusztai, Ferenc (ed.). Magyar értelmező kéziszótár (’A Concise Explanatory Dictionary of Hungarian’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003. 2nd, expanded and revised edition. →ISBN (The online version is available with registration for one 2-hour free trial per month.)
  • kétel 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
  • kétel in Czuczor, Gergely and János Fogarasi: A magyar nyelv szótára (’A Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Pest: Emich Gusztáv Magyar Akadémiai Nyomdász, 1862–1874.
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