päästä

Pronunciation: /ˈpæːstæˣ/

“päästä” is a Finnish word. Its 13 meanings in English:

verb

to get to, reach, arrive at/in [with illative or allative; or (with verbs) with illative of third infinitive ‘to do’] (a place)
to get to go, be allowed/permitted to go
to get in, be admitted to
to make it to, get to (a place/level), reach, attain, achieve
to come out/off, slip out/off, pop out/off; be worked (loose)
to (suddenly) come out (of an emotion), to burst out
to manage (to do; to happen by accident)
to get rid of (a person); to get over (a feeling)
to avoid, escape, get out of, not have/need, be spared the necessity of
to evade, elude, escape, get off/by
to be released/discharged (from a hospital; from prison)

in, after, a [period] from (after a period of time; usually relative to now, especially when talking about future events)
away (from a stated distance compared to something else)

From Proto-Finnic *pä(ä)stäk. Cognate with Estonian pääsema (“to escape, to reach”), Votic pääse, and Livvi piästä (“to come off, to come out”).

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