periytyä — meaning in English

English meaning

• descend verb To move from a higher place to a lower one; to go down.
• stem noun The main stalk of a plant that supports leaves, flowers, or fruit.

Senses

periytyä is used for these senses in English:

• descend To come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state; to abase or lower oneself; to condescend or stoop to something.
• descend (transitive) To pass from a higher to a lower part of (something, such as a flight of stairs or a slope); to go down along or upon.
• descend (intransitive) Of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child.
• descend (intransitive, chiefly, law) Of property, a right, etc.: to pass down to a generation, a person, etc., by inheritance.
• descend (intransitive, often, passive voice) Chiefly followed by from or (obsolete) of: to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source; to originate, to stem.
• stem To be caused or derived; to originate.

descend — full definition

1. verb To move from a higher place to a lower one; to go down.
2. verb To be traced back to, or come from, an earlier generation or source.
3. verb To become worse or fall into a lower, more negative state.

stem — full definition

1. noun The main stalk of a plant that supports leaves, flowers, or fruit.
2. noun A slender supporting part of an object, such as a wine glass or tobacco pipe.
3. noun The base form of a word to which endings are added.
4. verb To originate or arise from something.
5. verb To stop or hold back the flow or spread of something.

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