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taivuttaa.

to bend (make something curved)

9 characters3 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈtɑi̯ʋutːɑːˣ/[ˈt̪ɑ̝i̯ʋut̪ːɑ̝ː(ʔ)]
  1. to bend (make something curved)

    transitive
  2. to persuade, bend, coerce (try to make somebody change their opinion or make up their mind for something)

    transitive
  3. to inflect (a word) to conjugate (a verb)

    transitive
  4. to inflect (a word) to decline (an adjective or a noun)

    transitive
  5. to diffract

    transitive
Where this word comes from

taipua (“to bend”) + -ttaa (causative verb). First adopted to mean “to inflect, declinate, conjugate” by Finnish clergyman and teacher H. K. Corander in 1845, in which sense a semantic loan from Latin īnflectō.

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