vajatať
Appearance
Slovak
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adapted borrowing of Hungarian vajúdik + -ať.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]vajatať impf
- (intransitive) to labour (to suffer the pangs of childbirth)
- (literary, expressive) to hesitate, to ponder
- Nebol ešte rozhodnutý, vajatal. ― He haven't decided yet, hesitated.
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of vajatať (imperfective; class I, pattern chytať)
References
[edit]- ^ 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
[edit]- “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