käsittää

== Finnish == === Etymology === From Proto-Finnic *käcittädäk (“to handle, touch with one's hands; to seize, grasp”). Equivalent to käsi (“hand”) +‎ -ittää, originally "to grasp, seize, catch". The meaning "to understand, to comprehend" is possibly a calque of Swedish begripa (“to grasp, to understand”) (compare Swedish gripa (“to catch hold of, to seize”); also compare English grasp (“to grip; to understand”) and German begreifen (“to understand; to comprehend”)), but may also be due to an autochthonous semantic shift (e.g. related to hunting, initially of catching or seizing something, then subsequentiy of 'seizing' a concept mentally). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkæsitːæːˣ/, [ˈk̟æs̠it̪ːæː(ʔ)] Rhymes: -æsitːæː Syllabification(key): kä‧sit‧tää Hyphenation(key): kä‧sit‧tää === Verb === käsittää (transitive) to understand, comprehend, fathom (transitive) to comprise, consist of, include, encompass, cover, span (transitive, archaic) to grasp, seize, catch ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== käsillä ==== Descendants ==== → Estonian: käsitama (“to understand, comprehend”) (semantic loan) === References === === Further reading === “käsittää”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023 === Anagrams === säkittää