pyrkiä
Finnish
pronunciation
Definitions
- (+ (3rd infinitive in) illative) to strive, endeavour to attempt through application of effort
- to plan to become, aspire to be, run for office to work towards or hope to attain a position
- to pursue to aim for
- to tend to have a tendency to
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Finnic *pürkidäk derived from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (work).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*wurkijaną
Gloss
work
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
働
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- pyrintä Finnish
- pyrintö Finnish
- pyristellä Finnish
- pyristely Finnish
- pyrkijä Finnish
- pyrkimys Finnish
- pyrky Finnish
- pyrkyri Finnish
- pyrkyryys Finnish
- pyrähdellä Finnish
- pyrähdys Finnish
- pyrähtää Finnish
- rauhanpyrkimys Finnish
- *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *wṛǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *wurkijaną Proto-Germanic
- wyrcan Old English
- wyrċan Old English
- orka Old Norse
- yrkja Old Norse
- 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌺𐌾𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍃𐍄𐍅 Gothic
- pürgima Estonian
- *pürkidäk Proto-Finnic
- workian Old Saxon
- warthata Crimean Gothic