maht

See also: māht and mäht

Estonian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑht/, [ˈmɑht]

Noun

maht (genitive mahu, partitive mahtu)

1. volume (three-dimensional measure of space)
2. volume (quantity)

Declension

Declension of maht (ÕS type 22e/riik, t-ø gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		maht	mahud
accusative	nom.
	gen.	mahu
genitive			mahtude
partitive		mahtu	mahte mahtusid
illative		mahtu mahusse	mahtudesse mahesse
inessive		mahus	mahtudes mahes
elative		mahust	mahtudest mahest
allative		mahule	mahtudele mahele
adessive		mahul	mahtudel mahel
ablative		mahult	mahtudelt mahelt
translative		mahuks	mahtudeks maheks
terminative		mahuni	mahtudeni
essive		mahuna	mahtudena
abessive		mahuta	mahtudeta
comitative		mahuga	mahtudega

Further reading

• “maht”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
• “maht”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “maht”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• maht in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Gothic

Romanization

maht

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌷𐍄

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mahti.

Cognate with Old Saxon maht, Old English miht, Old Frisian macht, Old Norse máttr, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (mahts).

Noun

maht f

1. might

Declension

Declension of maht (feminine i-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	maht	mahti
accusative	maht	mahti
genitive	mahti	mahto
dative	mahti	mahtim, mahten

Descendants

• Middle High German: maht
  • German: Macht
  • Yiddish: מאַכט (makht)

References

1. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mahti.

Compare Old High German maht, Old English miht, Old Frisian macht, Old Norse máttr, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (mahts).

Noun

maht f

1. might

Declension

Declension of maht (irregular)

	singular	plural
nominative	maht	maht
accusative	mahtes	mahte
genitive	mahti	mahti
dative	mahtō	mahtum
instrumental	—	—

Descendants

• Middle Low German: macht
  • German Low German: Macht
  • Dutch Low Saxon: macht
  • Plautdietsch: Macht
  • → Norwegian: makt
  • → Swedish: makt
  • → Danish: magt
  • → Gutnish: mäkt