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Asturian

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Etymology

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Probably from Old French pot. Further etymology is obscure;[1] perhaps from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budn- (“a type of vessel”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpota/ [ˈpo.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -ota
  • Syllabification: po‧ta

Noun

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pota f (plural potes)

  1. pot
    Synonym: cacíu
    En pota que fierve nun toparás mosques
    In a boiling pot you won't find flies (Who boils his pot with chips makes his broth smell of smoke)
    (proverb)
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References

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  1. ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “bote I”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Further reading

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  • Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “pota”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
  • “pota”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN

Azerbaijani

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Other scripts
Cyrillic пота
Arabic پوتا

Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *botu (“young of camel”).[1] Cognate with Tatar and Bashkir бута (buta), Kyrgyz бото (boto), Kazakh бота (bota).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [poˈtɑ]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: po‧ta

Noun

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pota (definite accusative potanı, plural potalar)

  1. piglet
    Synonym: çoşqa
  2. bear cub

Declension

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Declension of pota
singular plural
nominative potapotalar
definite accusative potanıpotaları
dative potayapotalara
locative potadapotalarda
ablative potadanpotalardan
definite genitive potanınpotaların
Possessive forms of pota
nominative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) potam potalarım
sənin (“your”) potan potaların
onun (“his/her/its”) potası potaları
bizim (“our”) potamız potalarımız
sizin (“your”) potanız potalarınız
onların (“their”) potası or potaları potaları
accusative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) potamı potalarımı
sənin (“your”) potanı potalarını
onun (“his/her/its”) potasını potalarını
bizim (“our”) potamızı potalarımızı
sizin (“your”) potanızı potalarınızı
onların (“their”) potasını or potalarını potalarını
dative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) potama potalarıma
sənin (“your”) potana potalarına
onun (“his/her/its”) potasına potalarına
bizim (“our”) potamıza potalarımıza
sizin (“your”) potanıza potalarınıza
onların (“their”) potasına or potalarına potalarına
locative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) potamda potalarımda
sənin (“your”) potanda potalarında
onun (“his/her/its”) potasında potalarında
bizim (“our”) potamızda potalarımızda
sizin (“your”) potanızda potalarınızda
onların (“their”) potasında or potalarında potalarında
ablative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) potamdan potalarımdan
sənin (“your”) potandan potalarından
onun (“his/her/its”) potasından potalarından
bizim (“our”) potamızdan potalarımızdan
sizin (“your”) potanızdan potalarınızdan
onların (“their”) potasından or potalarından potalarından
genitive
singular plural
mənim (“my”) potamın potalarımın
sənin (“your”) potanın potalarının
onun (“his/her/its”) potasının potalarının
bizim (“our”) potamızın potalarımızın
sizin (“your”) potanızın potalarınızın
onların (“their”) potasının or potalarının potalarının

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*botu”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Catalan

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *pauta. First attested in 1371.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pota f (plural potes)

  1. paw, foot (of an animal)
    Synonym: peu
    caminar a quatre potes ― to walk on all fours
  2. leg (of a table)
    Synonym: petge
    una taula de quatre potes ― a table with four legs

Derived terms

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References

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Galician

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pota
pota

Etymology

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Probably from Old French pot. Further etymology is obscure;[1] perhaps from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budn- (“a type of vessel”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pota f (plural potas)

  1. pot, cooking pot
    Synonym: ola
    díxolle a pota ao caldeiro: "Achégate aló que me luxas!" (proverb)
    the pot told the cauldron: "Go away, you're going to mess me up!" (the pot calling the kettle black)
  2. flying squid (Todarodes sagittatus)
    Synonyms: choupa, voador
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References

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  1. ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “bote I”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[2] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse pota (“to put, stick”), from Proto-Germanic *putōną (“to stick, stab, push”). More at put.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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pota (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative potaði, supine potað)

  1. to poke

Conjugation

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pota – active voice (germynd)
infinitive nafnháttur að pota
supine sagnbót potað
present participle
lýsingarháttur nútíðar
 potandi
indicative
framsöguháttur
 subjunctive
viðtengingarháttur
present
nútíð
 past
þátíð
 present
nútíð
 past
þátíð
singular ég pota potaði poti potaði
þú potar potaðir potir potaðir
hann, hún, það potar potaði poti potaði
plural við potum potuðum potum potuðum
þið potið potuðuð potið potuðuð
þeir, þær, þau pota potuðu poti potuðu
imperative boðháttur
singular þú pota (þú), potaðu
plural þið potið (þið), potiði1
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
potast – mediopassive voice (miðmynd)
infinitive nafnháttur að potast
supine sagnbót potast
present participle
lýsingarháttur nútíðar
 potandist (rare; see appendix)
indicative
framsöguháttur
 subjunctive
viðtengingarháttur
present
nútíð
 past
þátíð
 present
nútíð
 past
þátíð
singular ég potast potaðist potist potaðist
þú potast potaðist potist potaðist
hann, hún, það potast potaðist potist potaðist
plural við potumst potuðumst potumst potuðumst
þið potist potuðust potist potuðust
þeir, þær, þau potast potuðust potist potuðust
imperative boðháttur
singular þú potast (þú), potastu
plural þið potist (þið), potisti1
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
potaður — past participle (lýsingarháttur þátíðar)
strong declension
(sterk beyging) 		singular (eintala) plural (fleirtala)
masculine
(karlkyn) 		feminine
(kvenkyn) 		neuter
(hvorugkyn) 		masculine
(karlkyn) 		feminine
(kvenkyn) 		neuter
(hvorugkyn)
nominative
(nefnifall) 		potaður potuð potað potaðir potaðar potuð
accusative
(þolfall) 		potaðan potaða potað potaða potaðar potuð
dative
(þágufall) 		potuðum potaðri potuðu potuðum potuðum potuðum
genitive
(eignarfall) 		potaðs potaðrar potaðs potaðra potaðra potaðra
weak declension
(veik beyging) 		singular (eintala) plural (fleirtala)
masculine
(karlkyn) 		feminine
(kvenkyn) 		neuter
(hvorugkyn) 		masculine
(karlkyn) 		feminine
(kvenkyn) 		neuter
(hvorugkyn)
nominative
(nefnifall) 		potaði potaða potaða potuðu potuðu potuðu
accusative
(þolfall) 		potaða potuðu potaða potuðu potuðu potuðu
dative
(þágufall) 		potaða potuðu potaða potuðu potuðu potuðu
genitive
(eignarfall) 		potaða potuðu potaða potuðu potuðu potuðu

Irish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle English potte,[1] from Old English pott (“a pot”), from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budn- (“a type of vessel”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pota m (genitive singular pota, nominative plural potaí)

  1. pot (vessel for cooking or storing food)
    Synonym: corcán
  2. (nautical) tub
    Synonym: leastar

Declension

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Declension of pota (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative pota potaí
vocative a phota a photaí
genitive pota potaí
dative pota potaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an pota na potaí
genitive an phota na bpotaí
dative leis an bpota
don phota 		leis na potaí

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of pota
radical lenition eclipsis
pota phota bpota

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “pota”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 359, page 123

Further reading

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Italian

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Pronunciation 1

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpo.ta/
  • Rhymes: -ota
  • Hyphenation: pó‧ta

Verb

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pota

  1. inflection of potare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Pronunciation 2

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpɔ.ta/
  • Rhymes: -ɔta
  • Hyphenation: pò‧ta

Interjection

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pota

  1. (Eastern Lombardy) expression of amazement; good heavens!
  2. (Eastern Lombardy) expression of resignation; it is what it is

Anagrams

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Kankanaey

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpota/ [ˈpoː.tʌ]
  • Rhymes: -ota
  • Syllabification: po‧ta

Noun

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póta

  1. act of cutting, slashing, gashing (of flesh or meat)

Derived terms

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References

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  • Morice Vanoverbergh (1933), “póta”, in A Dictionary of Lepanto Igorot or Kankanay. As it is spoken at Bauco (Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek; XII)‎[3], Mödling bei Wien, St. Gabriel, Österreich: Verlag der Internationalen Zeitschrift „Anthropos“, →OCLC, page 369

Kapampangan

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpotə/ [ˈpoː.tə]
  • Hyphenation: po‧ta

Adverb

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póta

  1. later; shortly
    Synonyms: pinandit, pangabagya
  2. maybe; probably
    Synonyms: mekad, siguru, baka

Kari'na

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *pota; compare Apalaí pota, Wayana pota, Waiwai pota, Pemon pota, Yao (South America) hopataly.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pota (possessed potary)

  1. mouth
  2. mouth area, snout

References

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  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008), A Carib grammar and dictionary‎[4], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 351
  • Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931), “pota”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 386; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎[5], Paris, 1956, page 377

Latin

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Verb

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pōtā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of pōtō

Lingala

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Verb

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-pota (infinitive kopota)

  1. to run

Lombard

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpɔta/, [ˈpɔta] (Eastern)

Interjection

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pota

  1. (Eastern Lombardy) expression of amazement; good heavens!
  2. (Eastern Lombardy) expression of resignation; it is what it is

Māori

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

For senses of fragment and sample, compare with parallels in same Austronesian family like between Malay pecah “to break” and pecahan “fragment, fraction”

Verb

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pota

  1. to break, to snap

Adjective

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pota

  1. broken, snapped, chipped into pieces
  2. few, little

Noun

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pota

  1. fragment, chip
  2. portion
    Synonym: wehenga
  3. sample

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • Williams, Herbert William (1917), “pota”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 344
  • “pota” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Mbya Guarani

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Suffix

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pota

  1. attaches to imperative to emphasize it
    Eikuaa pota ke.
    Be careful to know.

Verb

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pota

  1. to want, to desire

Conjugation

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Conjugation of pota
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person
inclusive 		1st person
exclusive 		2nd person 3rd person
xee aipota ndee ereipota ha'e oipota nhande jaipota ore oroipota peẽ peipota ha'e oipota

Old Navarro-Aragonese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pauta. Attested in the fifteenth century.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pota f

  1. paw

References

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Portuguese

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Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pt

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɔtɐ
  • Hyphenation: po‧ta

Noun

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pota f (plural potas)

  1. Humboldt squid, giant squid

Further reading

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Rapa Nui

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Te pota.

Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *pota. Cognates include Samoan pota and Māori pota.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpo.ta/
  • Hyphenation: po‧ta

Noun

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pota

  1. lettuce

References

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  • Paulus Kieviet (2017), A grammar of Rapa Nui‎[6], Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 29

Serbo-Croatian

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Noun

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pota (Cyrillic spelling пота)

  1. genitive singular of pot

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpota/ [ˈpo.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -ota
  • Syllabification: po‧ta

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Catalan pota (“paw”).

Noun

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pota f (plural potas)

  1. cuttlefish
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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pota

  1. inflection of potar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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Swahili

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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-pota (infinitive kupota)

  1. to lose
  2. to ruin
  3. to distort

Conjugation

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Conjugation of -pota
Positive present -napota
Subjunctive -pote
Negative -poti
Imperative singular pota
Infinitives
Positive kupota
Negative kutopota
Imperatives
Singular pota
Plural poteni
Tensed forms
Habitual hupota
Positive past positive subject concord + -lipota
Negative past negative subject concord + -kupota
Positive present (positive subject concord + -napota)
Singular Plural
1st person ninapota/napota tunapota
2nd person unapota mnapota
3rd person m-wa(I/II) anapota wanapota
other classes positive subject concord + -napota
Negative present (negative subject concord + -poti)
Singular Plural
1st person sipoti hatupoti
2nd person hupoti hampoti
3rd person m-wa(I/II) hapoti hawapoti
other classes negative subject concord + -poti
Positive future positive subject concord + -tapota
Negative future negative subject concord + -tapota
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -pote)
Singular Plural
1st person nipote tupote
2nd person upote mpote
3rd person m-wa(I/II) apote wapote
other classes positive subject concord + -pote
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -sipote
Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngepota
Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singepota
Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngalipota
Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singalipota
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -apota)
Singular Plural
1st person napota twapota
2nd person wapota mwapota
3rd person m-wa(I/II) apota wapota
m-mi(III/IV) wapota yapota
ji-ma(V/VI) lapota yapota
ki-vi(VII/VIII) chapota vyapota
n(IX/X) yapota zapota
u(XI) wapota see n(X) or ma(VI) class
ku(XV/XVII) kwapota
pa(XVI) papota
mu(XVIII) mwapota
Perfect positive subject concord + -mepota
"Already" positive subject concord + -meshapota
"Not yet" negative subject concord + -japota
"If/When" positive subject concord + -kipota
"If not" positive subject concord + -sipopota
Consecutive kapota / positive subject concord + -kapota
Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kapote
Object concord (indicative positive)
Singular Plural
1st person -nipota -tupota
2nd person -kupota -wapota/-kupoteni/-wapoteni
3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mpota -wapota
m-mi(III/IV) -upota -ipota
ji-ma(V/VI) -lipota -yapota
ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kipota -vipota
n(IX/X) -ipota -zipota
u(XI) -upota see n(X) or ma(VI) class
ku(XV/XVII) -kupota
pa(XVI) -papota
mu(XVIII) -mupota
Reflexive -jipota
Relative forms
General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -pota- + relative marker)
Singular Plural
m-wa(I/II) -potaye -potao
m-mi(III/IV) -potao -potayo
ji-ma(V/VI) -potalo -potayo
ki-vi(VII/VIII) -potacho -potavyo
n(IX/X) -potayo -potazo
u(XI) -potao see n(X) or ma(VI) class
ku(XV/XVII) -potako
pa(XVI) -potapo
mu(XVIII) -potamo
Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -pota)
Singular Plural
m-wa(I/II) -yepota -opota
m-mi(III/IV) -opota -yopota
ji-ma(V/VI) -lopota -yopota
ki-vi(VII/VIII) -chopota -vyopota
n(IX/X) -yopota -zopota
u(XI) -opota see n(X) or ma(VI) class
ku(XV/XVII) -kopota
pa(XVI) -popota
mu(XVIII) -mopota
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

Derived terms

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Tagalog

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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pota (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜆ) (colloquial)

  1. alternative form of puta: term of abuse

Interjection

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pota (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜆ) (colloquial)

  1. alternative form of puta

Zou

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Noun

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pota

  1. basket

References

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  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013), A Descriptive Grammar of Zou (PhD thesis), Canchipur: Manipur University
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