puuttua
Finnish
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Definitions
- (intransitive) to be missing; inanimate thing in elative or animate thing in ablative + 3rd-pers. singular + nominative/partitive = to lack
- (intransitive) to intervene, get involved in, interfere with
- to clamp down on, to put an end to to take measures to stop something
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Finnic *puuttudak.
Origin
Proto-Finnic
*puuttudak
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ajanpuute Finnish
- hapenpuute Finnish
- haponpuute Finnish
- laktaasinpuutos Finnish
- puute Finnish
- puutos Finnish
- puutosoire Finnish
- puutostauti Finnish
- puutteellinen Finnish
- puutteenalainen Finnish
- puutto Finnish
- puuttuminen Finnish
- rahanpuute Finnish
- raudanpuute Finnish
- tiedonpuute Finnish
- unenpuute Finnish
- vedenpuute Finnish
- puudutama Estonian
- puutuma Estonian
- *puuttudak Proto-Finnic