vasiten
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain, potentially a causative adverb (-ten); perhaps akin to Ingrian vasittaa (“to inculcate”), Karelian vasitakseh (“to watch out for, be wary of”).
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
vasiten (dialectal)
- Synonym of varta vasten
Further reading edit
- “vasiten”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04