Meaning of -l | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Added to a noun, an adjective, a verb or less frequently to an adverb to form a verb.
   morpheme
2. It is of ancient origin answering the question from where? It is no longer productive and is no longer an independent suffix in modern Hungarian. However, it can still be found in suffixes such as -ból/-ből, -nál/-nél, -ról/-ről, -tól/-től, -ul/-ül, in postpositions such as alól, mellől and in several adverbs, e.g. kívül, belül, hátul. In the Old Hungarian era it could express not only direction but also more abstract adverbs.
   ablative, morpheme, obsolete, suffix
3. Added to verbs.
   frequentative, morpheme, obsolete, suffix
4. Added to verbs; now geminated, see -ll
   morpheme

Equivalents

Examples

“csoda (“miracle”) + -l → csodál (“to admire”)”

“hátra (“backwards”) + -l → hátrál (“to step backward”)”

“csere (“an exchange”) + -l → cserél (“to change”)”

“fésű (“comb”) + -l → fésül (“to comb”)”

“hat (“to progress, enter, get (in) somewhere, affect, take effect”) + -l → hatol (“to penetrate, make one’s way into”)”

“(obsolete) tékozik (“to be dispersed, scattered”) + -l → tékozol (“to squander, waste”)”

“rogy(ik); rongy, roncs(ol) (“to collapse; (old) rag; to tear, erode, corrode”) + -l → romlik (“to deteriorate”)”

“aszik (“to wither”) + -l → aszal (“to dry, desiccate, wizen”)”

“forr (“to boil”) + -l → forral (“to boil (transitive)”)”

“nő (“to grow”) + -l → növel (“to increase”)”

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