hylätä
Finnish
pronunciation
Definitions
- (transitive) to reject, turn down, discard e.g. a plan
- (transitive) to refuse, turn away e.g. a person proposing something
- (transitive) to abandon, desert, leave e.g. one's spouse, child
- (transitive) to abandon, forsake e.g. principles
- (transitive) to give up, dismiss e.g. a thought
- (transitive) to fail, flunk in a test at school
- (transitive) to dismiss, disallow, throw out e.g. charges; to overrule a protest at a court
- (transitive) to defeat a law proposal
- (transitive) to disqualify a sports result
- (transitive) to discharge an assumption
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Finnic *hülgäit'äk.
Origin
Proto-Finnic
*hülgäit'äk
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- hyljeksiä Finnish
- hyljintä Finnish
- hyljätä Finnish
- hylkiminen Finnish
- hylkiä Finnish
- hylkiö Finnish
- hylky Finnish
- hylkyaine Finnish
- hylkyaukko Finnish
- hylkyauto Finnish
- hylkyjoukko Finnish
- hylkypuu Finnish
- hylkytavara Finnish
- hylkäys Finnish
- hylkäyspäätös Finnish
- hylkäystuomio Finnish
- hylkäysvirhe Finnish
- hylkääjä Finnish
- hylkääminen Finnish
- laivahylky Finnish
- laivanhylky Finnish
- hülgama Estonian
- *hülgäit'äk Proto-Finnic