hylätä
Pronunciation: /ˈhylætæˣ/
“hylätä” is a Finnish word. Its 11 meanings in English:
verb
- to reject, turn down, discard (e.g. a plan)
- to refuse, turn away (e.g. a person proposing something)
- to abandon, desert, leave (e.g. one's spouse, child)
- to abandon, forsake, renounce (e.g. principles)
- to give up, dismiss (e.g. a thought)
- to fail, flunk (in a test at school)
- to dismiss, disallow, throw out (e.g. charges); to overrule (a protest at a court)
- to defeat (a law proposal)
- to disqualify (a result, a competitor)
- to discharge (an assumption)
- to write off (declare as a total loss)
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *hülgäit'äk (compare Ingrian hylätä, Ludian hülgäitä, Veps hül’gäita).
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