vakol

Hungarian

Etymology

[1588] Probably borrowed from German wacken, bewacken + -ol (verb-forming suffix), via Saxon stonemasons.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvɒkol]
  • Hyphenation: va‧kol
  • Rhymes: -ok

Verb

vakol

  1. (transitive, construction) to mortar, plaster, render (to cover a wall with a layer of plaster)

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • vakolat
  • vakolatlan
  • vakolható
  • vakoltat

(With verbal prefixes):

  • átvakol
  • bevakol
  • felvakol
  • kivakol
  • rávakol
  • végigvakol

References

  1. Gerstner, Károly (ed.). Új magyar etimológiai szótár. (’New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian’). Work in progress. Nyelvtudományi Intézet (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary). Two volumes: A–K, L–Zs.

Further reading

  • vakol in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.
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