hýľ

See also: hyl, hýl, and hyl-

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Old Slovak hýľ, from Proto-Slavic *gylь. For the second meaning, compare the German Gimpel. First attested in the 16th century.[1] Cognate with Czech hýl.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɦiːʎ/, (high register) [ˈɦiːʎ], (common) [ˈɦiːl]
  • Rhymes: -iːʎ

Noun

hýľ m animal

  1. bullfinch
  2. (figuratively) mark (a gullible person)

Declension

Declension of hýľ
(patterns chlap (singular) and stroj (plural))
singularplural
nominativehýľhýle
genitivehýľahýľov
dativehýľovihýľom
accusativehýľahýle
locativehýľovihýľoch
instrumentalhýľomhýľmi

References

  1. ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016), “hýľ”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 215

Further reading

  • “hýľ”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026
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