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fejt

fejt

Hungarian

Verb

fejt

  1. (transitive) to unstitch, untack (to take out stitches from a fabric)
  2. (transitive) to husk, shell, hull, pod (to remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed)
  3. (transitive, mining) to mine, quarry (to remove (ore, stone) from the ground)
  4. (transitive, of wine) to decant, draw off
  5. (transitive, of dreams) to interpret, explain
  6. (transitive, of puzzles) to solve

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • fejteget
  • fejtés

(With verbal prefixes):

(Compound words):

  • számfejt

References

  1. Entry #712 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 963 7094 01 6