hotkia

hotk- +‎ -ia, probably from a variant of hatka, and possibly also in part from eastern dialectal hotka (“quick, eager”), from Russian ходкий (xodkij, “quick”). According to SSA, sound-symbolic.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈhotkiɑˣ/,
• Rhymes: -otkiɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): hot‧kia

hotkia

1. (transitive) To wolf down, eat quickly, gulp, gobble, hog, gorge oneself on, stuff oneself with (without regard for table manners).

• Being a momentane verb, hotkaista is used when the amount of the food to be wolfed down is confined or the moment of eating is transient, whereas hotkia is used when the duration of the eating is longer, more continuous or more or less indefinite. The difference can sometimes be translated in English by using the continuous tense

  Pekka hotki omenia, kun minä tulin kotiin.

  Pekka was gorging himself on apples when I came home.

  Pekka hotkaisi omenan ja juoksi ovesta ulos.

  Pekka wolfed the apple down and ran out the door.

• (to wolf down, etc. — with the act being continuous): ahmia, ahnehtia

• hotkaista

• “hotkia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• ahkiot, kihota