mota

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See also: Mota, motá, móta, möta, møta, mǿta, mơta, and mô tả

English

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Noun

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mota (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of mootah

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Basque

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin monētam (“mint, money”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mota inan

  1. type, kind, class
  2. (taxonomy) species
    Synonym: espezie

Declension

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Declension of mota (inanimate, ending in -a)
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

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  • “mota”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
  • “mota”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Catalan

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Etymology

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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

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Noun

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mota f (plural motes)

  1. mound, hillock
  2. (historical) motte
  3. clod, block of soil
  4. hummock, tussock
  5. levee

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Galician

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Etymology

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From Medieval Latin motta.[1]

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Noun

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mota f (plural motas)

  1. (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
  2. mound

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References

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  1. ^ “motte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Gothic

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Romanization

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mōta

  1. Romanization of 𐌼𐍉𐍄𐌰

Hausa

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Etymology

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From English motor.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /móː.tàː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [móː.tàː]

Noun

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mōtā̀ f (plural mōtōcī, possessed form mōtàr̃)

  1. automobile, car

Italian

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Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔ.ta/
  • Rhymes: -ɔta
  • Hyphenation: mò‧ta

Noun

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mota f (plural mote)

  1. mud
    Synonym: fango

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References

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  • Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN

Anagrams

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Kari'na

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *mota; compare Apalaí mota, Trió mota, Wayana mota, Waiwai mota, Akawaio mota, Pemon mota, Ye'kwana mota, Yao (South America) hoomotaly.

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Noun

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mota (possessed motary)

  1. shoulder

References

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  • 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

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Participle

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mōta

  1. inflection of mōtus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

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mōtā

  1. ablative feminine singular of mōtus

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Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔ.ta/
  • Rhymes: -ɔta
  • Syllabification: mo‧ta

Verb

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mota

  1. third-person singular present of motać

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɔtɐ
  • Hyphenation: mo‧ta

Noun

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mota f (plural motas)

  1. (chiefly Portugal) motorcycle
    Synonyms: moto, motocicleta

Silesian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Motte.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔ.ta/
  • Rhymes: -ɔta
  • Syllabification: mo‧ta

Noun

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mota f

  1. moth (insect)
    Hypernym: ôwada

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Spanish

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Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmota/ [ˈmo.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -ota
  • Syllabification: mo‧ta

Noun

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mota f (plural motas)

  1. speck (tiny spot or particle), mote
    Synonyms: partícula, migaja, ápice
  2. (uncountable, slang, Latin America) marijuana
    Synonyms: bareta, hierba, macoña, maría, marimba, pasto
  3. (textile) pill, fluff

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References

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  1. ^ Worcester, Joseph Emerson (1910: Worcester's academic dictionary: a new etymological dictionary of the English language, p. 371
  2. ^ 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

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Swahili

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English motor.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Noun

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mota (n class, plural mota)

  1. motor, engine

Swedish

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Verb

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mota (present motar, preterite motade, supine motat, imperative mota)

  1. 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
  2. (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

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Conjugation of mota (weak)
Active Passive
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.

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Tetum

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Noun

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mota

  1. river

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Venetan

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Etymology

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Compare Italian monte

Noun

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mota f (plural mote)

  1. heap, pile

Volapük

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Noun

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mota

  1. genitive singular of mot

Ye'kwana

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *mota (“shoulder”).

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Noun

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mota (obligatorily possessed; possessed motai)

  1. shoulder

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[3], Lyon, page 115
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