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Slovak
Etymology
Of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Belarusian гайда́ць (hajdácʹ), dialectal Polish hajdać, and Ukrainian гойда́ти (hojdáty).
Pronunciation
Verb
hojdať impf
- to rock (to move gently back and forth)
- (reflexive with sa) to swing
Conjugation
Conjugation of hojdať (imperfective; class I, pattern chytať)
Conjugation of hojdať sa (imperfective; class I, pattern chytať)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “hojdať”, 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
- Králik, Ľubor (2016) “hojdať”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN