kiertää
Pronunciation: /ˈkie̯rtæːˣ/
“kiertää” is a Finnish word. Its 16 meanings in English:
verb
- to turn, twist, screw, rotate
- to roll (up)
- to wind, wrap
- to circle, go around, circumvent, round
- to roam, rove, wander
- to orbit (e.g. of a satellite)
- to surround, encircle
- to round, turn past
- to circumvent, evade, dodge, avoid
- to circumvent, get around/past
- to spin, turn, revolve
- to reciprocate
- to circulate
- to go around (from person to person)
- to make the rounds, do the rounds (to circulate from one place to another)
- to make the rounds, do the rounds (to go from one place to another for a particular reason)
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *keertädäk, equivalent to kier- (“to roll”) + -tää.
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More Finnish words
- kiertäminen
- kiertämä
- kiertämätön
- kiertävä
- kiertää kehää
- kiertää kuin kissa kuumaa puuroa
- kiertää ympyrää
- kieru
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