kýta

See also: kyta and kȳta

Czech

Alternative forms

• kejta (nonstandard)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech kýta, originating from Proto-Slavic *kyta (“something hanging or swinging”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkiːta]
• Hyphenation: ký‧ta
• Rhymes: -iːta

Noun

kýta f (diminutive kýtka)

1. ham (the thigh and buttock of any animal slaughtered for meat)

Declension

Declension of kýta (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	kýta	kýty
genitive	kýty	kýt
dative	kýtě	kýtám
accusative	kýtu	kýty
vocative	kýto	kýty
locative	kýtě	kýtách
instrumental	kýtou	kýtami

Related terms

nouns

• kejtička
• kejtka
• kytice
• kytička
• kytka
• kýtička
• kýtka

Further reading

• “kýta”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “kýta”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “kýta”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈcʰiːta/

  Rhymes: -iːta

Verb

kýta (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative kýtti, supine kýtt)

1. (intransitive) to bicker, to quarrel

   Synonyms: þræta, þrátta, þjarka, þvarga, þrefa, deila, þrasa

Conjugation

kýta – active voice (germynd)

infinitive nafnháttur		að kýta
supine sagnbót		kýtt
present participle lýsingarháttur nútíðar		kýtandi
		indicative framsöguháttur			subjunctive viðtengingarháttur
		present nútíð	past þátíð		present nútíð	past þátíð
singular	ég	kýti	kýtti		kýti	kýtti
	þú	kýtir	kýttir		kýtir	kýttir
	hann, hún, það	kýtir	kýtti		kýti	kýtti
plural	við	kýtum	kýttum		kýtum	kýttum
	þið	kýtið	kýttuð		kýtið	kýttuð
	þeir, þær, þau	kýta	kýttu		kýti	kýttu
		imperative boðháttur
singular	þú	kýt (þú), kýttu
plural	þið	kýtið (þið), kýtiði1

¹ Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Derived terms

• kýtast
• kýtast á
• kýtast á um
• kýtast um

See also

• munnhöggvast

Old Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kyta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈkɨːta/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈkiːta/, /ˈkɛjta/

Noun

kýta f

1. ham, thigh

Declension

Declension of kýta (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	kýta	kýtě	kýty
genitive	kýty	kýtú	kýt
dative	kýtě	kýtama	kýtám
accusative	kýtu	kýtě	kýty
vocative	kýto	kýtě	kýty
locative	kýtě	kýtú	kýtách
instrumental	kýtú	kýtama	kýtami

This table shows the most common forms around the 13th century.

Descendants

• Czech: kýta

Further reading

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916), “kýta”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění