A person who sleeps until late in the morning, sleepyhead · dormouse (especially the edible dormouse, Glis glis), or other animals that hibernate during winter
çekim: çoğul sjusovares · tamlayan sjusovares
köken: sju (“seven”) + sovare (“sleeper”), since 1559, from the legend of the Seven Sleepers. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk sjusovar.
köken: First attested in 1723. From álom (“dream”) + szuszék (“a container storing grains or flour”). Folk speech often uses containers in compound words to express a negative quality. Compare méregzsák (“hothead”), szentfazék (“God botherer”), szeszkazán (“drunkard”).
aile: álomszuszékság
Te álomszuszék ébredj, / Hasadra süt a nap, / Nem hallod, nem hallod / A víg kakukkokat, / Kakukk, szól már a fák alatt.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese, from a Vulgar Latin *glirionem or *glērionem, probably from Latin glīs, glīris, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gl̥h₁éys (“weasel, mouse”). Compare the related forms lirio, liranco, leiranco. Compare Spanish lirón, Catalan liró, French liron.