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

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