lemegy

Hungarian

Etymology

le- (downward; completion) + megy (to go)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɛmɛɟ]
  • Hyphenation: le‧megy
  • Rhymes: -ɛɟ

Verb

lemegy

  1. (intransitive) to go down (to move from a higher place to a lower one)
  2. (intransitive) to decrease (to lessen in value)
  3. (intransitive) to go off (of an event, to take place and come to an end)
  4. (intransitive) to set, to go down (of a celestial body, to disappear below the horizon)

Conjugation

Further reading

  • lemegy 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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