tota
See also: Tóta
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) From the native name in Egypt.
NounEdit
tota (plural totas)
ReferencesEdit
- “tota”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
AnagramsEdit
AlbanianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
A Lallwort.
NounEdit
tota
CatalanEdit
AdjectiveEdit
tota f sg
FinnishEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
tota
- (colloquial) partitive singular of toi
InterjectionEdit
tota
- (colloquial) space filler or pause during conversation
AnagramsEdit
IcelandicEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tota f (genitive singular totu, nominative plural totur)
DeclensionEdit
IdoEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English total, French total, German total, Spanish total, Portuguese total, Italian totale, Russian тотальный (totalʹnyj), all ultimately from Latin totalis.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
tota
Derived termsEdit
LatinEdit
AdjectiveEdit
tōta
- inflection of tōtus:
ReferencesEdit
- tota in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Serbo-CroatianEdit
PronounEdit
tota (Cyrillic spelling тота)
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unknown. Likely onomatopoeic, after the sounds an infant produces before learning to speak properly.
VerbEdit
tota (present totar, preterite totade, supine totat, imperative tota)
Usage notesEdit
Most commonly together with the prepositions ihop or till.
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of tota (weak)
Active | Passive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Infinitive | tota | totas | ||
Supine | totat | totats | ||
Imperative | tota | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | toten | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | totar | totade | totas | totades |
Ind. plural1 | tota | totade | totas | totades |
Subjunctive2 | tote | totade | totes | totades |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | totande | |||
Past participle | — | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
TokelauanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Polynesian *te-o-ta.
PronunciationEdit
DeterminerEdit
tota
- (inalienable, definite) my
Usage notesEdit
- tota is commonly used in place of toku to arouse the listener’s sympathy about some predicament that one is in.
See alsoEdit
Tokelauan possessive determiners
Definite inalienable (O-type) | ||||||||
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singular reference | plural reference | |||||||
sg | du | pl | sg | du | pl | |||
long | short | long | short | |||||
1st person (excl.) | toku, tota1 |
to māua | to mā | to mātou | oku, ota1 |
o māua | o mā | o mātou |
1st person (incl.) | ― | to tāua | to tā | to tātou | ― | o tāua | o tā | o tātou |
2nd person | tō | toulua | toutou | ō | oulua | outou | ||
3rd person | tona | to lāua | to lā | to lātou | ona | o lāua | o lā | o lātou |
Definite alienable (A-type) | ||||||||
singular reference | plural reference | |||||||
sg | du | pl | sg | du | pl | |||
long | short | long | short | |||||
1st person (excl.) | taku, tata1 |
ta māua | ta mā | ta mātou | aku, ata1 |
a māua | a mā | a mātou |
1st person (incl.) | ― | ta tāua | ta tā | ta tātou | ― | a tāua | a tā | a tātou |
2nd person | tau | taulua | tautou | au | aulua | autou | ||
3rd person | tana | ta lāua | ta lā | ta lātou | ana | a lāua | a lā | a lātou |
Indefinite inalienable (O-type) | ||||||||
singular reference | plural reference | |||||||
sg | du | pl | sg | du | pl | |||
long | short | long | short | |||||
1st person (excl.) | hoku, hota1 |
ho māua | ho mā | ho mātou | ni oku, ni ota1 |
ni o māua | ni o mā | ni o mātou |
1st person (incl.) | ― | ho tāua | ho tā | ho tātou | ― | ni o tāua | ni o tā | ni o tātou |
2nd person | hō | houlua | houtou | ni ō | ni oulua | ni outou | ||
3rd person | hona | ho lāua | ho lā | ho lātou | ni ona | ni o lāua | ni o lā | ni o lātou |
Indefinite alienable (A-type) | ||||||||
singular reference | plural reference | |||||||
sg | du | pl | sg | du | pl | |||
long | short | long | short | |||||
1st person (excl.) | haku, hata1 |
ha māua | ha mā | ha mātou | ni aku, ni ata1 |
ni a māua | ni a mā | ni a mātou |
1st person (incl.) | ― | ha tāua | ha tā | ha tātou | ― | ni a tāua | ni a tā | ni a tātou |
2nd person | hau | haulua | hautou | ni au | ni aulua | ni autou | ||
3rd person | hana | ha lāua | ha lā | ha lātou | ni ana | ni a lāua | ni a lā | ni a lātou |
1) Sympathetic |
ReferencesEdit
- R. Simona, editor (1986) Tokelau Dictionary[1], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 398