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vajatať

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Slovak

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Etymology

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Adapted borrowing of Hungarian vajúdik +‎ -ať.[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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vajatať impf

  1. (intransitive) to labour (to suffer the pangs of childbirth)
  2. (literary, expressive) to hesitate, to ponder
    Nebol ešte rozhodnutý, vajatal.He haven't decided yet, hesitated.

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016) “vajatať”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 647

Further reading

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  • vajatať”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024