hojdať

Slovak

Etymology

Of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Belarusian гайда́ць (hajdácʹ), dialectal Polish hajdać, and Ukrainian гойда́ти (hojdáty).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɦɔjdac/, [ˈɦɔɪ̯dac]
  • Rhymes: -ɔjdac
  • Hyphenation: hoj‧dať

Verb

hojdať impf

  1. to rock (to move gently back and forth)
  2. (reflexive with sa) to swing

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

  • hojdať”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026
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    Králik, Ľubor (2016), “hojdať”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN