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A borrowing but with disputed origins:[1][2]

  1. From Proto-Ugric *ńolɜ- (“to press”).
  2. From Proto-Finno-Ugric *ńȣmɜ- (“to press, compress, crush”).

nyom

  2. (transitive) to press, push
  3. (transitive) to weigh
    Az autó egy tonnát nyom. (more commonly: Az autó súlya egy tonna or … egy tonna súlyú.) ― The car weighs a ton.
  4. (transitive, slang) to do
    Jól nyomod! ― You do it good.

The causative with -at literally expresses the causative/factitive meaning, while the variant with -tat refers to printing in particular.

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nyom (plural nyomok)

  2. trace, trail, track
  3. imprint (an impression; a mark resultant of printing)

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(Other verbs with similar meanings, like shoving, thrusting etc.):

  1. ^ nyom in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
  2. ^ Entry #1819 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  • (to press): nyom 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
  • (trace, trail): nyom 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

nyom

  1. grass
  2. weed
  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 221.