polttaa

Finnish

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Definitions
  • (transitive) to burn to cause to be consumed by fire
  • to burn to overheat so as to make unusable
  • to burn to make or produce by the application of fire
  • to burn to injure with heat or chemicals that cause similar injuries
  • to burn, sunburn
  • to burn to consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat
  • (computing) to burn to write data on a permanent storage device
  • to burn, waste to lose money and/or other resources
  • to burn in a game, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought
  • (transitive) to smoke to deliberately inhale smoke from cigarettes, other tobacco products or some other substances such as marijuana
  • (medicine) to cauterize
  • (baseball) to put out

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *polttadak.

Origin

Proto-Finnic

*polttadak

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