See also: lakťa

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Adjective

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lakta (accusative singular laktan, plural laktaj, accusative plural laktajn)

  1. milky, lactic

Hungarian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈlɒktɒ]
  • Hyphenation: lak‧ta
  • Rhymes: -tɒ

Etymology 1

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From lakik (to live, reside, inhabit) +‎ -ta (personal suffix) and -ta (participle-forming suffix).

Verb

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lakta

  1. (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

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lakta

  1. 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 területa region inhabited by Armenians
Derived terms
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Compound words

Etymology 2

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lakik (to live, reside, inhabit) +‎ -ta (noun-forming suffix)

Noun

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lakta (uncountable)

  1. (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.
Declension
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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

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  • (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

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Noun

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lakta f (4th declension)

  1. anvil

Serbo-Croatian

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Noun

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lakta (Cyrillic spelling лакта)

  1. genitive singular of lakat