keittää

From Proto-Finnic *keettädäk, *keittädäk, from *keedäk, the same root as in kiehua. The variation *ee ~ *ei may be explained by two parallel forms inherited from an old derivation *keje-ttä-. Cognate with Estonian keetma, Karelian keittyä／keittiä, Livonian kīetõ and Veps keitta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkei̯tːæːˣ/,
• Rhymes: -eitːæː
• Hyphenation^(key): keit‧tää

keittää

1. (transitive) to boil; to boil over

   keittää kokoon ― to reduce (decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off)

2. (transitive) to brew (tea, coffee, moonshine, etc.)
3. (transitive) to cook (prepare food for eating)
4. (transitive, figuratively) to cook up (manufacture, invent)
5. (figuratively, impersonal + adessive) to seethe, stew

   Hänellä keitti.

   He was stewing.

• kiehua
• keittyä (intransitive)

• “keittää”, 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

From Proto-Finnic *keittädäk. Cognates include Finnish keittää and Estonian keeta.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkei̯tːæː/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkei̯tːæː/,
• Rhymes: -ei̯tːæː
• Hyphenation: keit‧tää

keittää

1. (transitive) to cook
2. (transitive) to boil
3. (transitive) to weld

• → Votic: keittä

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 151