súg

See also: sug

Hungarian

Etymology

From an onomatopoeic (sound-imitative) root + -g (verb-forming suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʃuːɡ]
  • Rhymes: -uːɡ

Verb

súg

  1. (transitive) to whisper
  2. (transitive, theater and television) to prompt (to tell an actor/person the words they should be saying)

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

References

  1. súg 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

  • súg 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

Old Norse

Verb

súg

  1. second-person singular imperative active of súga
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