aueta

aueta

1. to build
2. to construct (a building)
   • 2010, Ewe Kapasen God, United Bible Societies, →ISBN, Genesis 11:4, page 12:

     Iwe ra apasa, "Sipwe ne aueta ew ach teninimw o ew tower epwe fakkun tekiata ngeni nang, iwe sipwe ne iteföunȯ o sisap paras fetan won unusen fonufan."

     So they said, "We will build a city and a tower that will be very tall toward heaven, therefore we will have a popular name and we will not be scattered on all the earth."

From aukea +‎ -ta and aukea +‎ -eta (with two parallel inflection classes).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯.etɑˣ/, [ˈɑ̝u̯.e̞t̪ɑ̝(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑuetɑ
• Syllabification^(key): au‧e‧ta

aueta

1. (intransitive) to open (to be opened)

   Juoksijan kengännauha aukesi kesken kilpailun.

   The runner's shoelace untied in the middle of the race.

   Kansi aukesi vasta, kun väänsin sitä kaksin käsin.

   The cover opened only when I twisted it with both hands.

2. (intransitive, figuratively) to become understood or realized

   Tämä ei nyt aukea minulle.

   I can't quite grasp this now.

74 (katketa) is the most common inflection. Inflecting as type 72 (vanheta) is regarded as slightly old-fashioned, but is used in certain fixed phrases, such as seesam aukene (“open sesame”).

• aukaista
• auki
• aukoa
• avata
• availla
• avautua

• “aueta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02