mota
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
mota (uncountable)
- Alternative form of mootah
Anagrams[edit]
Basque[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin monētam (“mint, money”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mota inan
Declension[edit]
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[edit]
- "mota" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
- “mota” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Noun[edit]
mota f (plural motes)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “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, 2023
Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Medieval Latin motta.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
References[edit]
- “mota” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “mota” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “mota” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “mota” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- ^ “motte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Gothic[edit]
Romanization[edit]
mōta
- Romanization of 𐌼𐍉𐍄𐌰
Hausa[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mōtā̀ f (plural mōtōcī, possessed form mōtàr̃)
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Of Germanic origin, related to English mud.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mota f (plural mote)
Derived terms[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Participle[edit]
mōta
- inflection of mōtus:
Participle[edit]
mōtā
References[edit]
- 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)
Maquiritari[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Cariban *mota (“shoulder”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mota (obligatorily possessed; possessed motai)
References[edit]
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, page 115
Polish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
mota
Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɔtɐ
- Hyphenation: mo‧ta
Noun[edit]
mota f (plural motas)
- (chiefly Portugal) motorcycle
- Synonyms: moto, motocicleta
Silesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mota f
Further reading[edit]
- mota in silling.org
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Noun[edit]
mota f (plural motas)
- speck (tiny spot or particle), mote
- (uncountable, slang, Latin America) marijuana
- (textile) pill, fluff
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ 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[edit]
- “mota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swahili[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun[edit]
mota (n class, plural mota)
Swedish[edit]
Verb[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
References[edit]
- mota in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- mota in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- mota in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Venetian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
mota f (plural mote)
Volapük[edit]
Noun[edit]
mota
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