mota
English
Noun
mota (uncountable)
- Alternative form of mootah
Anagrams
Basque
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin monētam (“mint, money”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mota inan
Declension
indefinite | singular | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
absolutive | mota | mota | motak |
ergative | motak | motak | motek |
dative | motari | motari | motei |
genitive | motaren | motaren | moten |
comitative | motarekin | motarekin | motekin |
causative | motarengatik | motarengatik | motengatik |
benefactive | motarentzat | motarentzat | motentzat |
instrumental | motaz | motaz | motez |
inessive | motatan | motan | motetan |
locative | motatako | motako | motetako |
allative | motatara | motara | motetara |
terminative | motataraino | motaraino | motetaraino |
directive | motatarantz | motarantz | motetarantz |
destinative | motatarako | motarako | motetarako |
ablative | motatatik | motatik | motetatik |
partitive | motarik | — | — |
prolative | motatzat | — | — |
Further reading
- “mota”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
- “mota”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin mota (“a mound, hill”), of Germanic origin, perhaps via Frankish *mot, *motta (“mud, peat, bog, turf”), from Proto-Germanic *mutô. Compare French motte.
Pronunciation
Noun
mota f (plural motes)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “mota” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “mota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “mota”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
Galician
Etymology
From Medieval Latin motta.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
mota f (plural motas)
- (dated) motte, rampart
- 1395, Miguel González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 557:
- que o dicto martin bezerra e a sua moller façan tirar et derribar todos los penedos et pedras de mota que estan cabo da dicta casa sobre la terra os que poderen tirar con palancos de ferro et de madeyro et a maos de omes et que os tiren da mota et que os lançen contra o rrio et façan a mota chaa
- the aforementioned Martin Becerra and his wife should order the toppling of every boulder and every stone of the motte which is by the aforementioned house, with iron levers, and wood levers, and by the hands of men; they should be removed from the motte and thrown into the river, and they should flatten the motte
- mound
Derived terms
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mota”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mota”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mota”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mota”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- ^ “motte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Gothic
Romanization
mōta
- Romanization of 𐌼𐍉𐍄𐌰
Hausa
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
mōtā̀ f (plural mōtōcī, possessed form mōtàr̃)
Italian
Etymology
From Latin maltha (“mineral pitch”). The original [ɫ] appears to have vocalized to [u̯] in pre-literary Tuscan, with the resulting [au̯] regularly yielding [ɔ], as in Latin aurum (“gold”) > Italian òro. Doublet of malta. Less probably of Germanic origin, related to English mud.
Pronunciation
Noun
mota f (plural mote)
Derived terms
References
- Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN
Anagrams
Kari'na
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *mota; compare Apalaí mota, Trió mota, Wayana mota, Waiwai mota, Akawaio mota, Pemon mota, Ye'kwana mota, Yao (South America) hoomotaly.
Pronunciation
Noun
mota (possessed motary)
References
- Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary[1], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 320
- Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “motarï”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 305; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes[2], Paris, 1956, page 297
Latin
Participle
mōta
- inflection of mōtus:
Participle
mōtā
References
- mota in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Polish
Pronunciation
Verb
mota
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔtɐ
- Hyphenation: mo‧ta
Noun
mota f (plural motas)
- (chiefly Portugal) motorcycle
- Synonyms: moto, motocicleta
Silesian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
mota f
Further reading
- mota in silling.org
Spanish
Etymology
Uncertain; possibly borrowed from Germanic, from Proto-Germanic *muþraz (“sediment”), cognate to Italian mota, English mud, Dutch modder.[1] Or, possibly from Iberian.[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
mota f (plural motas)
- speck (tiny spot or particle), mote
- (uncountable, slang, Latin America) marijuana
- (textile) pill, fluff
Derived terms
References
- ^ Worcester, Joseph Emerson (1910: Worcester's academic dictionary: a new etymological dictionary of the English language, p. 371
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 227
Further reading
- “mota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swahili
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
mota (n class, plural mota)
Swedish
Verb
mota (present motar, preterite motade, supine motat, imperative mota)
- to (physically) prevent from going farther (despite attempts), to block
- Den arga mannen försökte ta sig in på puben, men motades av dörrvakterna
- The angry man tried to enter the pub, but was blocked by the bouncers
- (with a particle like bort (“away”) or undan (“away”)) to (physically) drive away
- Livvakterna motade bort paparazzifotograferna
- The bodyguards pushed (drove (physically)) the paparazzi away
Conjugation
Active | Passive | |||
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Infinitive | mota | motas | ||
Supine | motat | motats | ||
Imperative | mota | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | moten | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | motar | motade | motas | motades |
Ind. plural1 | mota | motade | motas | motades |
Subjunctive2 | mote | motade | motes | motades |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | motande | |||
Past participle | motad | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
Derived terms
References
- mota in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- mota in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- mota in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Venetian
Etymology
Noun
mota f (plural mote)
Volapük
Noun
mota
Ye'kwana
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *mota (“shoulder”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mota (obligatorily possessed; possessed motai)
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[3], Lyon, page 115
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