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hylätä
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Finnish
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Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *hülgäit'äk (compare Ingrian hylätä, Ludian hülgäitä, Veps hül’gäita).
Pronunciation
Verb
hylätä (transitive)
- to reject, turn down, discard (e.g. a plan)
- to refuse, turn away (e.g. a person proposing something)
- to abandon, desert, leave (e.g. one's spouse, child)
- to abandon, forsake, renounce (e.g. principles)
- to give up, dismiss (e.g. a thought)
- to fail, flunk (in a test at school)
- (law) to dismiss, disallow, throw out (e.g. charges); to overrule (a protest at a court)
- (law) to defeat (a law proposal)
- (sports) to disqualify (a result, a competitor)
- (logic) to discharge (an assumption)
- to write off (declare as a total loss)
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Further reading
- “hylätä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023
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Ingrian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *hülgäit'äk. Cognates include Finnish hylätä and Veps hülgäita.
Pronunciation
Verb
hylätä
- (transitive) to abandon
- (transitive) to take off (clothing)
- (transitive) to reject (a person)
- (auxiliary + 3rd infinitive in elative) to stop, to cease
- 1934, V. I. Junus, Lukukirja inkeroisia oppikoteja vart (neljäs klassa), Leningrad: Riikin Izdatelstvo Kirja, page 8:
- Siint ajast pappi hylkäis pocivoittamast trengille yhel kerraal suurust, lounatta ja iltaist.
- Ever since, the priest stopped treating the farmhand at once with breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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Descendants
- → Votic: hülgete
References
- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 76
- Arvo Laanest (1997), Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 43
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