lakta
See also: lakťa
Esperanto edit
Pronunciation edit
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Adjective edit
lakta (accusative singular laktan, plural laktaj, accusative plural laktajn)
Hungarian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From lakik (“to live, reside, inhabit”) + -ta (personal suffix) and -ta (participle-forming suffix).
Verb edit
lakta
- (literary) third-person singular indicative past definite of lakik
- 1972, Jack London, translated by István Bart, Aranyásók Alaszkában (Smoke Bellew)[1]:
- Amióta M. Guggenheim és Fiai beruházási bankjának magas fizetésű szakértője és képviselője lett, Bowie ezredes Dawson egyik legnagyszerűbb házát lakta.
- As became a high-salaried expert and the representative of the great house of Guggenheim, Colonel Bowie lived in one of the most magnificent cabins in Dawson.
Participle edit
lakta
- verbal participle of lakik
- 1860, Mór Jókai (author), R. Nisbet Bain (translator), Szegény gazdagok [2] (The Poor Plutocrats[3]), Az üldözött vad, The Hunted Beast (chapter)
- […] mert ha tudhatta volna jöttét a Fatia Negra, lehetetlen, hogy ezen a kísértet lakta helyen rá ne várt volna […]
- For had Fatia Negra had any idea of his design, it is absolutely inconceivable that he would not have laid in wait for him on this spectre-haunted path […]
- örmények lakta terület ― a region inhabited by Armenians
- 1860, Mór Jókai (author), R. Nisbet Bain (translator), Szegény gazdagok [2] (The Poor Plutocrats[3]), Az üldözött vad, The Hunted Beast (chapter)
Derived terms edit
Compound words
- emberlakta (inhabited [by humans])
- magyarlakta (inhabited by Hungarians)
Etymology 2 edit
lakik (“to live, reside, inhabit”) + -ta (noun-forming suffix)
Noun edit
lakta (uncountable)
- (rare) verbal noun of lakik, his/her/its residence (somewhere)
- 1913, Géza Gárdonyi, Szunyoghy miatyánkja[4]:
- [A kutyámat] még Pesten laktomban neveztem el Lúnának.
- I named [my dog] Lúna back when I lived in Pest.
- Tongue-twister. Folk rhyme.[5]
- Meguntam gyönyörű Győrnek gyöngyvárában laktomat, mert a Duna, Rába, Rábca rákja rágja lábomat.
- I grew tired of living in the beautiful pearl-castle of Győr, because the crabs of [the rivers] Duna, Rába, Rábca are gnawing on my feet/legs.
- Meguntam gyönyörű Győrnek gyöngyvárában laktomat, mert a Duna, Rába, Rábca rákja rágja lábomat.
Declension edit
It mostly occurs currently with the suffix -ban/-ben after any possessive form.
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | lakta | — |
| accusative | laktát | — |
| dative | laktának | — |
| instrumental | laktával | — |
| causal-final | laktáért | — |
| translative | laktává | — |
| terminative | laktáig | — |
| essive-formal | laktaként | — |
| essive-modal | laktául | — |
| inessive | laktában | — |
| superessive | laktán | — |
| adessive | laktánál | — |
| illative | laktába | — |
| sublative | laktára | — |
| allative | laktához | — |
| elative | laktából | — |
| delative | laktáról | — |
| ablative | laktától | — |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
laktáé | — |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
laktáéi | — |
| Possessive forms of lakta | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | laktom | — |
| 2nd person sing. | laktod | — |
| 3rd person sing. | lakta | — |
| 1st person plural | laktunk | — |
| 2nd person plural | laktotok | — |
| 3rd person plural | laktuk | — |
Further reading edit
- (participle and noun): lakta in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Latvian edit
Noun edit
lakta ? (??? please provide the declension type!)
Serbo-Croatian edit
Noun edit
lakta (Cyrillic spelling лакта)