aitama

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *abittadak. Cognate with Finnish avittaa and Votic avitta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑi̯tɑmɑ/, [ˈɑi̯t̚ˌtɑmɑ]
  • Rhymes: -ɑmɑ
  • Hyphenation: ai‧ta‧ma

Verb

aitama (da-infinitive aidata)

  1. (transitive) to assist, to help (to provide assistance to someone, to help or support someone with advice, strength, or some other means)
    Synonyms: abistama, (obsolete) avitama
  2. (transitive) to help (to have a useful effect)
    • (Can we date this quote?), Peter Burke, Mis on kultuuriajalugu?[1], →ISBN, page 159:
      Need „narratiivid seksuaalsest hädaohust" aitasid luua Londonist kuvandi kui „pimedast, võimsast ja võrgutavast labürindist".
      These “narratives of sexual danger” helped create an image of London as a “dark, powerful and seductive labyrinth”.
  3. (impersonal) to be enough [with elative]
  4. (intransitive, rare) to suit

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • aitamine

References

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