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Pronunciation

Forms

oké[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from English okay.[1] Országh, in his survey of English elements in Hungarian, calls it an interjection and sentence-word of American origin, and an abbreviation.[2]

Semantic evolution

Hungarian made verbs of it: Országh records okéz “to okay” and okéztat “to have something okayed”.[2] Bakos's dictionary of foreign words of 1973 gives okéz in a narrow sense, to validate an air ticket for a particular flight.[2] As a noun it means approval, “the OK”, with the plural okék.[1]

Timeline

  • 1973 – okéz “to validate an air ticket for a flight”, in Bakos's dictionary of foreign words.[2]

Meanings

Interjection

  1. OK, all right: Oké, holnap találkozunk.[1]

Noun

  1. approval, the OK: Megkaptuk az okét a főnöktől.[1]

Word family

  • okéz

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d Országh, László (1977), Angol eredetű elemek a magyar szókészletben, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó (Nyelvtudományi Értekezések 93), p. 132