piirtää

piir- +‎ -tää;^[1] piiri also means "(scratched or carved) line, incision (in leather, birchbark, etc.)" in dialects,^[2] so the original meaning was probably "to scratch or carve a line, make an incision (in leather, birchbark, etc.)".

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːrtæːˣ/,
• Rhymes: -iːrtæː
• Hyphenation^(key): piir‧tää

piirtää

1. (transitive) to draw, sketch (produce a picture with a pencil or other similar implement)

   piirtää kuva ― to draw a picture

   piirtää viiva ― to draw/trace a line

   piirtää läpi ― to trace (copy onto a sheet of superimposed paper by drawing over lines) (literally, “to draw through”)

2. (transitive, architecture) to design, draft (draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing)
3. (transitive) to outline, draft (draw an outline of)
4. (transitive, mathematics) to describe (give rise to a geometrical structure)

• (to outline, draft): luonnostella

• piirustaa

• “piirtää”, 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