kieltää

Finnish

pronunciation
Definitions
  • (transitive) to forbid person in partitive, action in active 3rd infinitive in elative
  • (transitive) to forbid, to disallow, to ban, to prohibit
  • (transitive) to deny say that something does not exist
  • (transitive) to renounce also in a religious sense, to repudiate
  • (transitive) to dispute, to controvert
  • (transitive) to contest

Etymology

Suffix from Finnish kieli (language, tongue, string, with languages, of language, of the tongue, of a tongue).

Origin

Finnish

kieli

Gloss

language, tongue, string, with languages, of language, of the tongue, of a tongue

Concept
Semantic Field

Speech and language

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

語

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