hojdať

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Slovak

Etymology

Of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Belarusian гайда́ць (hajdácʹ), dialectal Polish hajdać, and Ukrainian гойда́ти (hojdáty).

Pronunciation

Verb

hojdať impf

  1. to rock (to move gently back and forth)
  2. (reflexive with sa) to swing

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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, 2024
  • Králik, Ľubor (2016) “hojdať”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN