riittää - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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From Proto-Finnic *riittädäk. Related to Ingrian riittää and Karelian riitteä. The original meaning was "to cover with (thin) ice" (whence riite), from which "to cover" and abstractly "to suffice". If from earlier *riip-tä- (with *-tä-), the root could be a borrowing from Proto-Germanic *hrīmô (genitive *hrīpaz).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈriːtːæːˣ/, [ˈriːt̪ːæː(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -iːtːæː
• Hyphenation^(key): riit‧tää

riittää

1. (intransitive) to be enough, suffice, do [with illative or allative ‘for (a purpose)’; or with translative ‘for (a time)’; or with illative of third infinitive ‘to do’]

   Riittääkö meillä ruokaa kolmeksi päiväksi?

   Do we have enough food for three days?

   Riittääkö ruoka kolmeksi päiväksi?

   Is there enough food for three days?

   Nyt riittää!

   That is enough!

2. to cover in a (thin) layer of ice

• “riittää”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

• IPA^(key): /ˈriːtːæː/, [ˈriːt̪ːæː]
• Rhymes: -iːtːæː
• Hyphenation^(key): riit‧tää

riittää

1. third-person singular present indicative of riittää

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