tarttua.
to catch, grab, seize
Meaning & usage
to catch, grab, seize
Isä tarttuu minua vaatteista.
Hän tarttui minua kädestä.
to adhere, stick
Haju tarttuu herkästi vaatteisiin.
to be transmitted; to be infectious, be contagious
Hepatiitti A tarttuu saastuneen ruoan välityksellä.
Olen huomannut, että Jennan nauru tarttuu.
Where this word comes from
From Proto-Finnic *tarttudak. Related to Ingrian tarttua, Karelian tarttuo, Livvi tartuo, Ludian tartuda, Veps tartuda and Votic tarttua. * (to be transmitted, be contagious): Also found in some other Finnic languages. Likely an autochthonous semantic shift from “to stick, cling, adhere”. For a similar shift, compare German anstecken (“to infect”) (from stecken (“to stick”)).
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