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väittää
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Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *vägittädäk, equivalent to vä(k)i- (“force”) + -ittää. Cognate with Estonian väitma.
Pronunciation
Verb
väittää (intransitive or transitive, usually atelic)
- to claim, contend, assert, argue, maintain, allege [(with nominals) with translative; or (with verbs) with genitive or possessive form of present or past active participle ‘to do/have done’]
- Heidän väitetään tappaneen lemmikkinsä.
- They are alleged to have killed their pets.
They allegedly killed their pets.
- They are alleged to have killed their pets.
- Väitätkö minua varkaaksi?
- Are you claiming that I'm a thief?
- to plead, allege, claim, maintain (to offer by way of excuse)
- (logic) to predicate (assert or state as an attribute or quality of something)
Conjugation
Derived terms
- väittää kivenkovaan (“to insist (to hold up a claim emphatically)”)
verbs
- väitellä
- väittää vastaan (“to argue (back), contradict”)
Further reading
- “väittää”, 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 2023-07-04
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Ingrian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *vägittädäk. Cognates include Finnish väittää (“to alledge”) and Estonian väita (“to alledge”).
Pronunciation
Verb
väittää
- (transitive) to pull
- (transitive) to bring by driving
Conjugation
Synonyms
References
- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 683
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