bandukol
Hungarian
Etymology
An onomatopoeia + -kol (frequentative suffix).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbɒndukol]
- Hyphenation: ban‧du‧kol
- Rhymes: -ol
Verb
bandukol
- (intransitive) to saunter, trudge, amble (to walk slowly, with head down, often deeply in thoughts)
- Synonyms: ballag, baktat, kullog, mendegél, cammog[2]
- Lassan a ház felé bandukoltunk. ― We walked slowly towards the house.
- 1965 (first publication of the Hungarian translation), Christian Morgenstern (original author), Tamás Katona (Hungarian translator), Max Knight and Jerome Lettvin (English translators), A tölcsér:
- Két tölcsér éjjel bandukolt. / Szűk torkukon a kandi hold / ezüstös fényét / általönti, / útjukra / szórja, / s. t. / b.
- Two funnels travel through the night; / a sylvan moon’s canescent light / employs their bodies’ narrow / flue in flowing pale / and cheerful / thro / ug / h
- Through darkest night two funnels go; / and in their narrow necks below / moonbeams gather to cast / the better a / light upon / their / path / et / c.
- Two funnels travel through the night; / a sylvan moon’s canescent light / employs their bodies’ narrow / flue in flowing pale / and cheerful / thro / ug / h
- Két tölcsér éjjel bandukolt. / Szűk torkukon a kandi hold / ezüstös fényét / általönti, / útjukra / szórja, / s. t. / b.
Conjugation
conjugation of bandukol
1st person sg | 2nd person sg informal | 3rd person sg, 2nd p. sg formal | 1st person pl | 2nd person pl informal | 3rd person pl, 2nd p. pl formal | |||
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Indicative mood | Present | Indef. | bandukolok | bandukolsz | bandukol | bandukolunk | bandukoltok | bandukolnak |
Def. | intransitive verb, definite forms are not used | |||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
Past | Indef. | bandukoltam | bandukoltál | bandukolt | bandukoltunk | bandukoltatok | bandukoltak | |
Def. | ― | |||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
Conditional mood | Present | Indef. | bandukolnék | bandukolnál | bandukolna | bandukolnánk | bandukolnátok | bandukolnának |
Def. | ― | |||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
Subjunctive mood | Present | Indef. | bandukoljak | bandukolj or bandukoljál | bandukoljon | bandukoljunk | bandukoljatok | bandukoljanak |
Def. | ― | |||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
Infinitive | bandukolni | bandukolnom | bandukolnod | bandukolnia | bandukolnunk | bandukolnotok | bandukolniuk | |
Other nonfinite verb forms | Verbal noun | Present participle | Past participle | Future part. | Adverbial part. | Potential | ||
bandukolás | bandukoló | bandukolt | ― | bandukolva | bandukolhat |
Derived terms
- bandukolás
(With verbal prefixes):
- átbandukol
- elbandukol
- hazabandukol
- kibandukol
- odabandukol
- végigbandukol
- visszabandukol
References
- bandukol 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.)
- Eőry, Vilma. Értelmező szótár+ (’Explanatory Dictionary Plus’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2007. →ISBN
Further reading
- bandukol in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- bandukol in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)