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võtma

Pronunciation: /ˈvɤtmɑ/

“võtma” is an Estonian word. Its 20 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to take (to get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force)
  2. to take, ingest or consume (to receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing)
  3. to have, eat or drink (to receive food or drink into one's body)
  4. to take, catch or fetch (especially of a dog or a trained animal)
  5. to take, receive or obtain (to transfer to one's own use, ownership or possession)
  6. to get
  7. to make doable, feasible, processable
  8. to have sex with a woman
  9. to borrow time
  10. to take, seize or enable (of power, a duty, a right, etc.)
  11. to need, use or demand
  12. to have an opinion about someone or something; to interpret something in a certain way
  13. to take, to consider
  14. to induce a state, situation or action to move or go to another position, state or situation
  15. to spoil, damage or destroy
  16. to act or have an effect
  17. to endure, to be able to (used in comparisons expressing intense activity)
  18. to take (about movement, an activity, or performance)
  19. to take (regarding a recording, storage or measurement)
  20. to take or harvest

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vottadak, possibly from Proto-Uralic *watta-. If so, the word might be related to Komi-Zyrian вотны (votny, “to pick, to gather”), вӧтны (vötny, “to catch; to chase, to follow”) (dialectal), Northern Mansi ва̄туӈкве (vātuňkve, “to gather”), Northern Sami vuohttit (“to track, to follow”) and Tundra Nenets [script needed] (weďeʔ-, “to visit; to chase, to track”). Unrelated to…

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