lakta

See also: lakťa

Esperanto

Adjective

lakta (accusative singular laktan, plural laktaj, accusative plural laktajn)

1. milky, lactic

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Hungarian

Etymology

lakik (“to live, reside, inhabit”) +‎ -ta

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɒktɒ]
• Hyphenation: lak‧ta

Verb

lakta

1. (literary) third-person singular indicative past definite of lakik
   • 1972, István Bart (translator), Jack London (author), Aranyásók Alaszkában (Smoke Bellew)^[1]

     Amióta M. Guggenheim és Fiai beruházási bankjának magas fizetésű szakértője és képviselője lett, Bowie ezredes Dawson egyik legnagyszerűbb házát lakta.

     As became a high-salaried expert and the representative of the great house of Guggenheim, Colonel Bowie lived in one of the most magnificent cabins in Dawson.

Participle

lakta

1. verbal participle of lakik
   • 1860, Mór Jókai (author), R. Nisbet Bain (translator), Szegény gazdagok ^[2] (The Poor Plutocrats^[3]), Az üldözött vad, The Hunted Beast (chapter)

     […] mert ha tudhatta volna jöttét a Fatia Negra, lehetetlen, hogy ezen a kísértet lakta helyen rá ne várt volna […]

     For had Fatia Negra had any idea of his design, it is absolutely inconceivable that he would not have laid in wait for him on this spectre-haunted path […]

   örmények lakta terület ― a region inhabited by Armenians

Derived terms

• emberlakta (“inhabited [by humans]”)
• magyarlakta (“inhabited by Hungarians”)

Noun

lakta (uncountable)

1. (rare) verbal noun of lakik, his/her/its residence (somewhere)
   • 1913, Géza Gárdonyi, Szunyoghy miatyánkja^[4]

     [A kutyámat] még Pesten laktomban neveztem el Lúnának.

     I named [my dog] Lúna back when I lived in Pest.

   • Tongue-twister. Folk rhyme.^[5]

     Meguntam gyönyörű Győrnek gyöngyvárában laktomat, mert a Duna, Rába, Rábca rákja rágja lábomat.

     I grew tired of living in the beautiful pearl-castle of Győr, because the crabs of [the rivers] Duna, Rába, Rábca are gnawing on my feet/legs.

Declension

It mostly occurs currently with the suffix -ban/-ben after any possessive form.

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	lakta	—
accusative	laktát	—
dative	laktának	—
instrumental	laktával	—
causal-final	laktáért	—
translative	laktává	—
terminative	laktáig	—
essive-formal	laktaként	—
essive-modal	laktául	—
inessive	laktában	—
superessive	laktán	—
adessive	laktánál	—
illative	laktába	—
sublative	laktára	—
allative	laktához	—
elative	laktából	—
delative	laktáról	—
ablative	laktától	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	laktáé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	laktáéi	—

Possessive forms of lakta
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	laktom	—
2nd person sing.	laktod	—
3rd person sing.	lakta	—
1st person plural	laktunk	—
2nd person plural	laktotok	—
3rd person plural	laktuk	—

Further reading

• lakta in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.

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Latvian

Noun

lakta ? (^??? please provide the declension type!)

1. anvil

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

lakta (Cyrillic spelling лакта)

1. genitive singular of lakat