merkitä

Finnish

Etymology

merkki +‎ -itä

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmerkitæˣ/,
• Rhymes: -erkitæ
• Syllabification^(key): mer‧ki‧tä

Verb

merkitä

1. (transitive) to mark, check off, tick off, tag, stamp, brand

   Merkitse maksamasi laskut rastilla.

   Mark the bills you paid with an X.

2. (transitive) to write down, mark down, note down, make a note

   Merkitsin muistiinpanot vihkooni.

   I wrote the notes down on my notebook.

3. (accounting, transitive) to enter, book, record
4. (transitive) to subscribe (promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount)

   Jokainen merkitsi kymmenen euroa.

   Everyone subscribed ten euros.

5. (finance, transitive) to subscribe (agree to buy shares in a company)

   Mihin hintaan osakkeet on merkitty?

   What price were the shares subscribed for?

6. (transitive, usually atelic) to mean, denote, signify (to = allative)

   Sano englantilaisen hautajaisissa "much": Se merkitsisi surijoille "paljon".

   Say "much" at the Englishman's burial: It would mean "a lot" to the mourners.

7. (transitive, usually atelic) to indicate, mark, be a sign of, signify, symbolize

   Nuo pilvet taivaalla merkitsevät rankkaa sadetta. Toisitko sateenvarjot?

   Those clouds on the sky indicate fierce rainfall. Could you bring the umbrellas?

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Further reading

• “merkitä”, 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 2023-07-03

Ingrian

Etymology

From merkki (“sign”) +‎ -itä. Akin to Finnish merkitä and Karelian merkitä.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmerkitæ/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmerkitæ/,
• Rhymes: -erkit, -erkitæ
• Hyphenation: mer‧ki‧tä

Verb

merkitä

1. (transitive, usually atelic) to mark, notate
   • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 12:

     Iƶoran keelees möö slogattommia vokaloja eri bukvoil emmä merkitse.

     In the Ingrian language we don't mark unsyllabic vowels in various letters.

2. (transitive, usually atelic) to mean, denote
   • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 4:

     Laukaal monikkaat äänet saotaa toiseel viisii, ku Soikkolas, sannoin painutos, sklonenja, Laukaal ono vähä toisenlaajain, ja Laukaal ono sanoja, kumpa Soikkolaas ei oo, tali kummat Soikkolaas merkitsööt toista assiaa, ku Laukaal.

     In the Lower Luga dialect some sounds are pronounced in a different way, than in the Soikkola dialect, the inflection, declension of words, is a little different in Lower Luga, and Lower Luga has words, that aren't in Soikkola, or that in Soikkola mean different things, than in Lower Luga.

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References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 305