lükkama

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *lük'äit'äk. Cognate with Finnish lykätä and Votic lütšäte.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlykːɑmɑ/, [ˈlykːɑmɑ]
  • Rhymes: -ykːɑmɑ
  • Hyphenation: lük‧ka‧ma

Verb

lükkama (da-infinitive lükata)

  1. (transitive) to move, to push
  2. (transitive) to postpone, to put off
  3. (transitive) to shift (to direct to someone else, away from oneself) [with allative ‘to whom’]

Conjugation

References

  • lükkama in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
  • lükkama”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009