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anta

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English

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin antae (“pilasters”), with a back-formed singular form.

 
The walls within red rectangles are antae.

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Noun

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anta (plural antae or antas)

  1. (architecture) A kind of pier that terminates the walls of the naos, a kind of post or pillar on either side of a doorway or entrance of a Greek temple.
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Akkadian

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Pronoun

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anta

  1. Eblaite form of atta
Cuneiform spellings
Phonetic
  • 𒀭𒁕 (an-da)

Galician

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Etymology

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Probably from Latin antae (“jamb”); alternatively from a substrate Indo-European language[1]

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Noun

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anta m (plural antas)

  1. dolmen, menhir, megalith; landmark
    Synonyms: arca, forno
  2. large vertical stone used in the construction of drystone walls
    Synonym: chanto

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References

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  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “anta”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Hausa

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

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antā̀ f (possessed form antàr̃)

  1. alternative spelling of hanta

Indonesian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈanta/
  • Hyphenation: an‧ta

Etymology 1

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From Sanskrit अन्त (antá, “disposition, essence”).

Noun

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anta (plural anta-anta)

  1. (archaic) character, nature
    Synonyms: sifat, tabiat

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Arabic أَنْتَ (ʔanta, “you”).

Pronoun

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anta

  1. (informal) Second-person singular pronoun: you, your, yours
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Indonesian informal second-person pronouns:

  • anta (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
  • antum (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
  • coen (slang, East Java)
  • ente (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
  • kamu (intimate)
  • ko, kowe (informal, Java)
  • kon, koen (colloquial, East Java)
  • lu, lo, loe, elu (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
  • mika, mike (informal, Eastern Sumatra)

Etymology 3

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From Belitung Malay [Term?].

Noun

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anta (plural anta-anta)

  1. rice dirt

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈan.ta/
  • Rhymes: -anta
  • Hyphenation: àn‧ta

Etymology 1

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From Latin antae f pl.

Noun

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anta f (plural ante)

  1. door (of furniture)
  2. shutter (of window)
  3. sash (of window)
  4. panel
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Etymology 2

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From the suffix -anta common to quaranta (“forty”), cinquanta (“fifty”), sessanta (“sixty”), settanta (“seventy”), ottanta (“eighty”), and novanta (“ninety”).

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anta m pl (plural only)

  1. (informal) forties, fifties, sixties, ... (in someone's age)

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Japanese

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Romanization

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anta

  1. Rōmaji transcription of あんた

Kapampangan

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Etymology

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Compare Ilocano ania, Kapampangan ana.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ənˈta/ [ənˈtä]

Adverb

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anta

  1. (interrogative) where
  2. (interrogative) what

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anta

  1. as if

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Ludian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *antadak. Cognates include Finnish antaa and Veps antta.

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Verb

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anta

  1. (transitive) to give
  2. (auxiliary) to allow

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  • Juho Kujola (1944) Lyydiläismurteiden sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 10
  • M. Pahomov (2022) “anta”, in Lüüdi-venän, venä-lüüdin sanakirdʹ‎[1], Helsinki: Lüüdilaine Siebr, →ISBN, page 16

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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an- +‎ ta; from Danish antage. Calque of German annehmen.

Verb

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anta (imperative anta, present tense antar, passive antas, simple past antok, past participle antatt, present participle antakende)

  1. to assume, presume
  2. to accept, approve

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Occitan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Early Medieval Latin haunta, borrowed from Frankish *haunitha (“disdain, scorn, ridicule”), from Proto-Germanic *hauniþō (“humiliation”), from Proto-Indo-European *kaw- (“to be evil, make evil”). Cognate with French honte.

Noun

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anta f (plural antas)

  1. (archaic) shame
    Synonym: vergonha

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Pali

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Etymology

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Inherited from Sanskrit अन्त (anta).

Noun

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anta m or n[1]

  1. end
  2. goal
  3. top

Declension

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Declension table of "anta" (masculine)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)antoantā
Accusative (second)antaṃante
Instrumental (third)antenaantehi or antebhi
Dative (fourth)antassa or antāya or antatthaṃantānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)antasmā or antamhā or antāantehi or antebhi
Genitive (sixth)antassaantānaṃ
Locative (seventh)antasmiṃ or antamhi or anteantesu
Vocative (calling)antaantā

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Noun

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anta n

  1. intestine, tharm

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Declension table of "anta" (neuter)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)antaṃantāni
Accusative (second)antaṃantāni
Instrumental (third)antenaantehi or antebhi
Dative (fourth)antassa or antāya or antatthaṃantānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)antasmā or antamhā or antāantehi or antebhi
Genitive (sixth)antassaantānaṃ
Locative (seventh)antasmiṃ or antamhi or anteantesu
Vocative (calling)antaantāni

Descendants

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  • Khmer: អន្តៈ (ʼɑntaʼ)

Adjective

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anta

  1. lowest,[1] inferior[1]
  2. worst[2]
  3. last,[2] final
    • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎[2] (overall work in Pali), page 285; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:
      गमु इच्चेदस्स धातुस्स अन्तो मकारो च्छो होति वा सब्बासु पच्चयविभत्तीसु।
      Gamu[ ]iccetassa dhātussa anto makāro ccho hoti vā sabbāsu paccayavibhattīsu.
      The final m of the root gamu is optionally changed into cch, if any suffix or verbal termination follows:
  4. extreme[2]
  5. interior[1]

Declension

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Declension table of "anta" (masculine)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)antoantā
Accusative (second)antaṃante
Instrumental (third)antenaantehi or antebhi
Dative (fourth)antassa or antāya or antatthaṃantānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)antasmā or antamhā or antāantehi or antebhi
Genitive (sixth)antassaantānaṃ
Locative (seventh)antasmiṃ or antamhi or anteantesu
Vocative (calling)antaantā
Declension table of "antī" (feminine)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)antīantiyo or antī
Accusative (second)antiṃ or antiyaṃantiyo or antī
Instrumental (third)antiyāantīhi or antībhi
Dative (fourth)antiyāantīnaṃ
Ablative (fifth)antiyāantīhi or antībhi
Genitive (sixth)antiyāantīnaṃ
Locative (seventh)antiyā or antiyaṃantīsu
Vocative (calling)antiantiyo or antī
Declension table of "anta" (neuter)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)antaṃantāni
Accusative (second)antaṃantāni
Instrumental (third)antenaantehi or antebhi
Dative (fourth)antassa or antāya or antatthaṃantānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)antasmā or antamhā or antāantehi or antebhi
Genitive (sixth)antassaantānaṃ
Locative (seventh)antasmiṃ or antamhi or anteantesu
Vocative (calling)antaantāni

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 39.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “anta”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

Polish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin antae.

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Noun

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anta f

  1. (architecture, Ancient Greece) anta

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Declension of anta
singular plural
nominative anta anty
genitive anty ant
dative ancie antom
accusative antę anty
instrumental antą antami
locative ancie antach
vocative anto anty

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  • anta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Galician-Portuguese anta, borrowed from Latin antās pl.

Noun

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anta f (plural antas)

  1. (architecture) anta
  2. (archaeology) dolmen (prehistoric megalithic tomb)
    Synonym: dólmen
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Etymology 2

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From Arabic لَمْتَة (lamta).

Noun

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anta f (plural antas)

  1. tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae)
    Synonym: tapir

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anta m or f by sense (plural antas)

  1. (Brazil, figuratively) a stupid person
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiota
    Você é uma anta!
    You are an idiot!

Spanish

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Etymology

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From ante.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈanta/ [ˈãn̪.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -anta
  • Syllabification: an‧ta

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anta f (plural antas)

  1. female equivalent of ante: female moose, female elk
  2. (Bolivia) tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae.)
    Synonyms: tapir, anteburro, sachavaca, danta, ante

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Swedish

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Etymology

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Apocopic form of antaga, calqued from Middle Low German annemen or German annehmen. All compounds with the verb ta have gone through apocope and those forms are now the standard ones, see also avta/avtaga, inta/intaga and överta/övertaga. Cognate with Danish antage, Norwegian Bokmål anta, Norwegian Nynorsk anta, antake, antaka. Morphologically the same as native Swedish åta (åtaga) and English ontake.

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Verb

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anta (present antar, preterite antog, supine antagit, imperative anta)

  1. to assume, to suppose
    Anta att X är tre. Då är noll gånger X lika med noll.
    Assume that X is three. Then zero times X equals zero.
    Om vi antar att han är skyldig så kommer det bli jäkligt svårt att få honom fälld
    If we assume he's guilty, it will be damn hard to get him convicted
  2. to guess, to suppose
    Det kommer rök ur kaffebryggaren, så jag antar att det är dags att köpa en ny
    There's smoke coming out of the coffee maker, so I guess it's time to buy a new one
  3. to accept an offer
    Schackspelaren antog erbjudandet om remi efter att ha funderat på det
    The chess player accepted the offer of a draw after having thought about it
  4. (especially in the past participle) to accept (to a school, etc.)
    Jag har blivit antagen till Harvard!
    I've been accepted to Harvard!

Conjugation

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Conjugation of anta (class 6 strong)
active passive
infinitive anta antas
supine antagit antagits
imperative anta —
imper. plural1 antan —
present past present past
indicative antar antog antas antogs
ind. plural1 anta antogo antas antogos
subjunctive2 anta antoge antas antoges
present participle antagande
past participle antagen

1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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Tagalog

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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antá or anta (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜈ᜔ᜆ)

  1. rancidity; rancid odor
    Synonym: (Marinduque) angal
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Spanish anta, feminine of ante, from Andalusian Arabic لمط (lámṭ).

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anta (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜈ᜔ᜆ)

  1. elk; moose (Alces alces)
    Synonym: alse
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Further reading

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  • “anta”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 38

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Votic

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *antadak.

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Verb

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anta

  1. to give

Inflection

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Conjugation of anta (type III-3/anta, nt-nn gradation)
Indicative
Present Perfect
positive negative positive negative
1st singular annõn en annõ 1st singular õõn antõnnu en õõ antõnnu
2nd singular annõd ed annõ 2nd singular õõd antõnnu ed õõ antõnnu
3rd singular annõb eb annõ 3rd singular on antõnnu eb õõ antõnnu
1st plural annõmmõ emmä annõ 1st plural õõmmõ antõnnu emmä õõ antõnnu
2nd plural annõttõ että annõ 2nd plural õõttõ antõnnu että õõ antõnnu
3rd plural annõta eväd annõ 3rd plural õlla annõttu eväd õõ annõttu
impersonal annõta eväd annõ impersonal õlla annõttu eväd õõ annõttu
Imperfect Pluperfect
positive negative positive negative
1st singular annin en antõnnu 1st singular õlin antõnnu —
2nd singular annid ed antõnnu 2nd singular õlid antõnnu —
3rd singular anti eb antõnnu 3rd singular õli antõnnu —
1st plural annimmõ emmä antõnnu 1st plural õlimmõ antõnnu —
2nd plural annittõ että antõnnu 2nd plural õlittõ antõnnu —
3rd plural annõtti eväd annõttu 3rd plural õlti annõttu —
impersonal annõtti eväd annõttu impersonal õlti annõttu —
Conditional
Present Perfect
positive negative positive negative
1st singular antaizin en antaizʹ 1st singular õllõizin antõnnu en õllõizʹ antõnnu
2nd singular antaizid ed antaizʹ 2nd singular õllõizid antõnnu ed õllõizʹ antõnnu
3rd singular antaizʹ eb antaizʹ 3rd singular õllõizʹ antõnnu eb õllõizʹ antõnnu
1st plural antaizimmõ emmä antaizʹ 1st plural õllõizimmõ antõnnu emmä õllõizʹ antõnnu
2nd plural antaizittõ että antaizʹ 2nd plural õllõizittõ antõnnu että õllõizʹ antõnnu
3rd plural annõttaizʹ eväd annõttaizʹ 3rd plural õltaizʹ annõttu eväd õltaizʹ annõttu
impersonal annõttaizʹ eväd annõttaizʹ impersonal õltaizʹ annõttu eväd õltaizʹ annõttu
Imperative
Present
positive negative
1st singular — —
2nd singular annõ elä annõ
3rd singular antõgo1) elko antõgo1)
1st plural — —
2nd plural antõga elka antõga
3rd plural antõgod1) —
impersonal — —
Nominal forms
Infinitives Participles
active passive
1st anta present antõjõ2) —
2nd illative antõma past antõnnu annõttu
inessive antõmõz 1) using la is more common
2) also used as the agent noun
elative antõmõssõ
abessive antõmõttõ

References

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  • Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

Yilan Creole

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Etymology

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From Japanese あんた (anta).

Pronoun

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anta

  1. (Tungyueh, Aohua, Hanhsi) you (second person singular pronoun)

Synonyms

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Dialectal synonyms of anta (“you (second person singular pronoun)”)
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Tungyuehanta, nta
Aohuaanta, nta
Hanhsianta

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References

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  • Chien Yuehchen (2015) “The lexical system of Yilan Creole”, in New Advances in Formosan Linguistics‎[3], pages 513-532
  • Chien Yuehchen (2018) “日本語を上層とする 宜蘭クレオールの人称代名詞”, in 日本語の研究‎[4], volume 14, number 4
  • 林愷娣 [Lin Kaidi] (2022) A basic description of Yilan Creole phonology: with a special focus on the Aohua dialect‎[5] (Unpublished thesis)
  • Peng Qiu (2015) A Preliminary Investigation of Yilan Creole in Taiwan: Discussing predicate position in Yilan Creole‎[6] (Master's thesis)

Yoruba

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àǹtà

Pronunciation

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àǹtà

  1. savannah monitor
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