to prevent, forestall, preclude, avert · to prevent, stop, keep, hinder, obstruct, impede, block someone · to block (on social media)
çekim: geçmiş estänyt · şimdiki estäisi · ulaç estävä
köken: Unclear; possibly from e- (“not”) + -stää (with an original sense of “to make not be, to make cease”), or alternatively esi- (“fore”) + -tää (with an original sense of “to block by putting something in front”). Cognate with Karelian esteä.