puhua

== Finnish == === Etymology === From Proto-Finnic *puhudak (“to blow”) (compare Estonian puhuma), from Proto-Uralic *puše- (“to blow”) (compare Northern Sami bossut, Western Mansi [script needed] (put-)). Attested since the time of Mikael Agricola (output c. 1543–1552). The semantic shift from “to blow” to “to speak” is found mainly only in Finnish (and rarely in Karelian). It may have developed via a sense “to cast a healing spell”, which is found also in some other Finnic languages. Note that the Finnic languages have multiple unrelated words for “to speak, talk” (Estonian rääkima, Ingrian läätä, Karelian paissa ~ Livvi paišta ~ Ludian pagišta ~ Veps pagišta, Livonian rõkāndõ, Võro kõnõlõma, Votic pajatta). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈpuhuɑˣ/, [ˈpuɦuɑ̝(ʔ)] Rhymes: -uhuɑ Syllabification(key): pu‧hu‧a Hyphenation(key): pu‧hua === Verb === puhua (intransitive, rarely transitive) to speak, talk (communicate with one's voice) (intransitive) to speak, talk [with elative ‘about, of’ and allative ‘to’] (communicate, discuss, converse; usually by speaking or with one's voice) (intransitive) to speak (deliver a speech) Synonym: pitää puhe (transitive, usually atelic) to speak (be able to communicate in a language) (poetic) synonym of puhaltaa (“to blow”) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === === Further reading === “puhua”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023 === Anagrams === pauhu, puuha