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turēt

Pronunciation: [tuɾɛ̂ːt]

“turēt” is a Latvian word. Its 20 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to hold (to keep something that was taken, grabbed, in a fixed position, e.g., in one's hands, lap, back, etc.)
  2. to hold (to not allow someone, something to move freely, to keep someone, something in its place, to force someone, something to not move)
  3. to keep (to position the body in a certain way and to make it remain so)
  4. to keep, to hold (to make (someone, something) be or stay in some place, state or condition)
  5. to keep, to hold (to make (something) be or stay for some time in a certain situation, condition, or place)
  6. to keep, to have (to make sure that some product is available)
  7. to keep, to bear (to remember, to remain aware of something)
  8. to keep, to hold, to run, to have (to own (property), to manage, administer it, to take care of it)
  9. to keep (to hire, to employ, usually in one's farm, home)
  10. to keep (to allow someone to stay, to live in one's home)
  11. to keep, to hold (to cause to remain moving in a certain direction)
  12. to keep, to hold (to prevent from going away, from moving, acting freely)
  13. to keep in one's power (to limit someone's freedom of motion or action)
  14. to keep (someone, something) in a certain state or situation
  15. to keep, to hold (to link, to connect with something)
  16. to keep, to hold, to keep up, to keep going (to be able to perform; to be able to cope, put up with something unpleasant)
  17. to keep, to hold (to prevent something undesirable from going through)
  18. to hold, to consider, to think of something, someone in a certain way
  19. to keep, to hold (to go on feeling, expressing it, generally for a long time)
  20. to hold, to control, to prevent

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *tur-yé-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *twerH- (“to enclose, grab”). In other words, from the same stem as tvert (“to grasp, to grab”), of which it was originally the iterative-durative form. (It is also possible that there was a semantically close verb *turt, from the same stem as tvert, with turēt being its iterative-durative form). Cognates include Lithuanian turė́ti…

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