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tavata

Pronunciation: /ˈtɑʋɑtɑˣ/

“tavata” is a Finnish word. Its 10 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to meet (come face to face with)
  2. to meet (come together in conflict)
  3. to meet up (to meet by arrangement)
  4. to encounter
  5. to catch, find
  6. to touch, meet, feel, hit, catch
  7. to touch, fumble
  8. to have a habit (of doing something), to usually (do) (something), used to (do) (something) (past tense sense), to tend to be
  9. to spell (a word; to pronounce a word letter by letter or syllable by syllable)
  10. to decipher (to read obscure or almost illegible text)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tabat'ak, probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic *dabaną. Cognate with Ingrian tavata, Karelian tavata, Votic tavatõ, Estonian tabama, Ludian tabada, Livonian ta’bbõ (“to guess, to solve a riddle”). Alternatively, sometimes compared with Erzya тавадомс (tavadoms), Udmurt тупаны (tupany, “to fit”), Komi-Zyrian топӧдны (topödny, “to squeeze, to combine, to join”), Hungarian tapad…

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