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tauta

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See also: tautā

Finnish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑu̯tɑ/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝u̯t̪ɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -ɑutɑ
  • Syllabification(key): tau‧ta
  • Hyphenation(key): tau‧ta

Noun

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tauta

  1. partitive singular of tau

Anagrams

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Icelandic

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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tauta (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative tautaði, supine tautað)

  1. to mutter

Conjugation

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tauta – active voice (germynd)
infinitive nafnháttur tauta
supine sagnbót tautað
present participle
tautandi
indicative
subjunctive
present
past
present
past
singular ég tauta tautaði tauti tautaði
þú tautar tautaðir tautir tautaðir
hann, hún, það tautar tautaði tauti tautaði
plural við tautum tautuðum tautum tautuðum
þið tautið tautuðuð tautið tautuðuð
þeir, þær, þau tauta tautuðu tauti tautuðu
imperative boðháttur
singular þú tauta (þú), tautaðu
plural þið tautið (þið), tautiði1
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
tautaður — 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)
tautaður tautuð tautað tautaðir tautaðar tautuð
accusative
(þolfall)
tautaðan tautaða tautað tautaða tautaðar tautuð
dative
(þágufall)
tautuðum tautaðri tautuðu tautuðum tautuðum tautuðum
genitive
(eignarfall)
tautaðs tautaðrar tautaðs tautaðra tautaðra tautaðra
weak declension
(veik beyging)
singular (eintala) plural (fleirtala)
masculine
(karlkyn)
feminine
(kvenkyn)
neuter
(hvorugkyn)
masculine
(karlkyn)
feminine
(kvenkyn)
neuter
(hvorugkyn)
nominative
(nefnifall)
tautaði tautaða tautaða tautuðu tautuðu tautuðu
accusative
(þolfall)
tautaða tautuðu tautaða tautuðu tautuðu tautuðu
dative
(þágufall)
tautaða tautuðu tautaða tautuðu tautuðu tautuðu
genitive
(eignarfall)
tautaða tautuðu tautaða tautuðu tautuðu tautuðu
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  • taut (muttering, mumbling)

Latgalian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *tautāˀ. Cognates include Latvian tauta and Lithuanian tauta.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈtàu̯ta]
  • Hyphenation: tau‧ta

Noun

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tauta f

  1. people, nation
    • 1973, M. Bukšs, J. Placinskis, Latgaļu volūdas gramatika un pareizraksteibas vōrdneica, Latgaļu izdevnīceiba, page 17:
      VOLŪDAS UN TAUTAS IZPLATEIBA SENOTNĒ
      THE SPREAD OF THE LANGUAGE AND PEOPLE IN THE ANTIQUITY

Declension

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Declension of tauta (type 4 noun)
singular plural
nominative tauta tautys, tautas1)
genitive tautys, tautas1) tautu
dative tautai tautom
accusative tautu tautys, tautas1)
instrumental tautu tautom
locative tautā tautuos
vocative tauta, taut tautys, tautas1)

1) dialectal

References

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  • M. Bukšs, J. Placinskis (1973) Latgaļu volūdas gramatika un pareizraksteibas vōrdneica, Latgaļu izdevnīceiba, page 407

Latvian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *tawtā-, from Proto-Indo-European *towtā, an o-grade form of *tewtā-, *tewtéh₂ (throng, multitude; people; land), from the stem *tew- (to swell).

This word had several meanings in its history, often still found in folk tales: “(group of) foreigners,” “strangers,” “enemy tribe,” etc. (Compare Proto-Slavic *ťȗďь). In the 17th century, ļaudis, not tauta, was used in the sense of “people, nation.” In translations of German texts, (non-native) translators often used tauta to mean also “tribe,” “nation,” “(social) group” (compare German Geschlecht, Gattung), even “(animal or vegetal) species.” In the 19th century, the range of uses was narrowed, especially in the 1850s and 1860s with the first Latvian National Awakening, where the word tauta became associated with the idea of “nation” and was first used to refer to the Latvian people. It then stabilized with its current (political-ethnographic) meaning. Cognates include Lithuanian tautà, Sudovian taud (from *tauta), Old Prussian tauto (land), Proto-Germanic *þeudō (Gothic 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰 (þiuda), Old English þeod, Old High German diot, German deutsch, from *þiudiskaz), Old Irish túath (people, tribe), Oscan touto (country, citizens, community).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tauta f (4th declension)

  1. people, nation (historically formed group of people, usually having a common culture, language, and territory)
    latviešu tautathe Latvian people, nation
    lietuviešu tautathe Lithuanian people, nation
    vācu tautathe German people, nation
    tautas izcelšanāsthe origin, ethnogenesis of a nation
    tautas vēsturepeople's, national history
    tautu draudzībafriendship among nations
    kultūras tautacultured, cultivated nation
    tautas garsnational spirit (= cultural, spiritual, psychological specificity)
  2. (in the genitive, used adjectivally) people's, popular, folk, national (that which is typical or traditional of a nation)
    tautas daiļradefolk, national creation, art
    tautas mākslafolk, popular art
    tautas teikasfolk legends
    tautas daiļamatniecībafolk craft
    tautas mūzika, dejasfolk music, dances
    tautas dziesmafolk song, verse
    tautas ticējumifolk beliefs
    tautas ēdienipopular, ethnic food
    tautas tērpsfolk, ethnic costume
    tautas epossfolk epic
    tautas medicīna, ārstniecībafolk medicine
  3. people (group of inhabitants of a given area)
    Latvijas tautathe people of Latvia
    tautas skaitīšanacensus (lit. people counting)
  4. (in the genitive, used adjectivally) popular, people's (that which was made by, is typical of, the people of a certain area; that which defends their interests)
    tautas izglītības sistēmapopular education system
    tautas frontepopular front
  5. people (a large number of individuals; people in general)
    mašīnā tagad tautas ir vairāk, visiem sēdvietu nepietiekthere are more people in the car now, there won't be enough sitting space for all
    viņš gaida, kad sanāks vairāk tautashe waited for (the time) when more people would come
    tauta runā, ka tu institūtā tikpat kā neesot redzētspeople are saying that it's as if you haven't been seen at the institute (= that you haven't been there often enough)
  6. (colloquial) people (a group of individuals with some specific characteristic feature)
    zvejnieki ir trūcīga tautafishermen are a poor people
    mēs, mākslinieki, esam nelaimīga tautawe, the artists, are an unhappy people
    bērniem, bērniem vajag rakstīt! tā ir vispateicīgākā tautathe children, the children must write! they are (lit. that is) the most promising, gratifying people
    kaķi vispār ir tāda tauta, no kuras nezini, ko kurā brīdī sagaidīsicats in general are such a people, from which you don't know what and when to expect
  7. (in folklore; usually plural) people from another region, family group, village
    tautu meita(lit. daughter of the people) young woman from another region or family group
    tautu dēls(lit. son of the people) young man from another region or family group

Declension

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Declension of tauta (4th declension)
singular plural
nominative tauta tautas
genitive tautas tautu
dative tautai tautām
accusative tautu tautas
instrumental tautu tautām
locative tautā tautās
vocative tauta tautas

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “tauta”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Lithuanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *t(j)autāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂.

Noun

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tautà f (plural taũtos) stress pattern 4

  1. land, region, country

Declension

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Declension of tautà
singular
(vienaskaita)
plural
(daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) tautà taũtos
genitive (kilmininkas) tautõs tautų̃
dative (naudininkas) taũtai tautóms
accusative (galininkas) taũtą tautàs
instrumental (įnagininkas) tautà tautomi̇̀s
locative (vietininkas) tautojè tautosè
vocative (šauksmininkas) taũta taũtos

References

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  • tauta”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012

Old Norse

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Etymology

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Among a class of words with similar beginnings such as þjóta (to make a whistling sound), þys (din, disturbance), all related to Proto-Germanic *þeutaną (to roar, howl).

Verb

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tauta

  1. to mutter, murmur

Conjugation

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Conjugation of tauta — active (weak class 2)
infinitive tauta
present participle tautandi
past participle tautaðr
indicative subjunctive
present past present past
1st person singular tauta tautaða tauta tautaða
2nd person singular tautar tautaðir tautir tautaðir
3rd person singular tautar tautaði tauti tautaði
1st person plural tautum tautuðum tautim tautaðim
2nd person plural tautið tautuðuð tautið tautaðið
3rd person plural tauta tautuðu tauti tautaði
imperative present
2nd person singular tauta
1st person plural tautum
2nd person plural tautið
Conjugation of tauta — mediopassive (weak class 2)
infinitive tautask
present participle tautandisk
past participle tautazk
indicative subjunctive
present past present past
1st person singular tautumk tautuðumk tautumk tautuðumk
2nd person singular tautask tautaðisk tautisk tautaðisk
3rd person singular tautask tautaðisk tautisk tautaðisk
1st person plural tautumsk tautuðumsk tautimsk tautaðimsk
2nd person plural tautizk tautuðuzk tautizk tautaðizk
3rd person plural tautask tautuðusk tautisk tautaðisk
imperative present
2nd person singular tautask
1st person plural tautumsk
2nd person plural tautizk

Descendants

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  • Icelandic: tauta

Further reading

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