pyytää

From Proto-Finnic *püütädäk (“to hunt, fish”), from Proto-Uralic *püwtä- (“to hunt, fish”). The senses "to ask for, request, invite" have developed from this earlier sense, possibly also under the influence of similar-sounding Germanic words like Swedish bjuda (from Proto-Germanic *beudaną).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpyːtæːˣ/, [ˈpyːt̪æː(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -yːtæː
• Syllabification^(key): pyy‧tää

pyytää (transitive)

1. to ask (for), request [with ablative ‘who is asked’ and object ‘for something’; or with partitive ‘who is asked’ and illative of third infinitive ‘to do something’]

   Synonym: anoa

   Hän pyysi minulta apua.

   He asked me for some help.

   Hän pyysi minua auttamaan.

   He asked me to help.

2. to invite (to) [with illative or allative ‘to’; or with illative of third infinitive ‘to do something’]

   Synonym: kutsua

   Hän pyysi meidät vieraisille.

   She invited us to visit her (home).

   Hän pyysi minut auttamaan.

   He invited me to help.

3. to hunt, fish

   Synonyms: pyydystää, metsästää, kalastaa (“to fish”)

   Hän pyyti kalaa katiskalla ja verkolla.

   He fished with a wire fish-trap and a net.

   (literally, “...hunted fish...”)

• (ask (for), request):
  • When the object is a nominal, i.e. when asking for something, what is being asked for is the object, and is in either the partitive case or the accusative case depending on telicity. Who or what is being asked to provide it is in the ablative case.
    • Hän pyysi minulta apua.

      He asked me for some help.

  • When asking to do or help do an action, the verb uses the illative case of the third infinitive, while who is being asked to help is usually in the partitive case. Note that if the person is in the accusative case, the sense is in fact “to invite”.
    • Hän pyysi minua auttamaan.

      He asked me to help.

• (invite): Who or what is invited is in the accusative or partitive case depending on telicity. What is being invited to is in the illative or allative case, depending on the word and exact meaning.
• The conjugation of the past tense can vary depending on the meaning. When using the verb in the original sense ("to hunt/fish"), it is more common to use the endings -ti/-di, but the endings -si are also used. In the sense "to ask for" and "to invite", only the endings -si are used.

(request, ask):

(hunt, fish):

• “pyytää”, 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 2023-07-03

• päätyy

From Proto-Finnic *püütädäk. Cognates include Finnish pyytää and Estonian püüda.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈpyːtæː/, [ˈpyːtæ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈpyːtæː/, [ˈpyːtæː]
• Rhymes: -yːtæː
• Hyphenation: pyy‧tää

pyytää

1. (transitive) to catch
2. (transitive) to fish for
3. (transitive) to trap
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 61:

     pääsöö [meri] kallaa pyytämää.

     [the sea] manages to trap some fish.

• (to catch): tavata, lovittaa, ottaa kiin, tavata kiin

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 104
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 449