pyytää

From Proto-Finnic *püütädäk (“to hunt, fish”), from Proto-Uralic *püwtä- (“to hunt, fish”). The senses "to ask for, request, invite" have developed from this earlier sense, possibly also under the influence of similar-sounding Germanic words like Swedish bjuda (from Proto-Germanic *beudaną).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpyːtæːˣ/, [ˈpyːt̪æː(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -yːtæː
• Syllabification^(key): pyy‧tää

pyytää (transitive)

1. to ask (for), request
2. to invite (to)

   Synonym: kutsua

3. to hunt, fish

   Synonyms: pyydystää, metsästää

• (request, ask):
  • When the object is a nominal, i.e. when asking for something, what is being asked for is the object, and is in either the partitive case or the accusative case depending on telicity. Who or what is being asked to provide it is in the ablative case.
    • Hän pyysi minulta apua.

      He asked me for some help.

  • When asking to do or help do an action, the verb uses the illative case of the third infinitive, while who is being asked to help is in the partitive case.
    • Hän pyysi minua auttamaan.

      He asked me to help.

• (invite): Who or what is invited is in the accusative or partitive case depending on telicity. What is being invited to is in the illative or allative case, depending on the word and exact meaning.
• The conjugation of the past tense can vary depending on the meaning. When using the verb in the original sense ("to hunt/fish"), it is more common to use the endings -ti/-di, but the endings -si are also used. In the sense "to ask for" and "to invite", only the endings -si are used.

(request, ask):

(hunt, fish):

• (to hunt): metsästää
• (to fish): kalastaa
• (to demand): vaatia
• (to petition): anoa
• (to desire, want): haluta

(hunt, fish):

• nouns: pyydys, pyynti, pyytäjä

(request, ask, demand):

• päätyy

From Proto-Finnic *püütädäk. Cognates include Finnish pyytää and Estonian püüda.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈpyːtæː/, [ˈpyːtæ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈpyːtæː/, [ˈpyːtæː]
• Rhymes: -yːtæː
• Hyphenation: pyy‧tää

pyytää

1. (transitive) to catch
2. (transitive) to fish for
3. (transitive) to trap
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 61:

     pääsöö [meri] kallaa pyytämää.

     [the sea] manages to trap some fish.

• (to catch): tavata, ottaa kiin, tavata kiin

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 104
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 449