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pota

pota

See also: põta, pōta, and p’ǫta

Catalan

Noun

pota f ‎(plural potes)

  1. paw

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse pota ‎(“to put, stick”), from Proto-Germanic *putōną ‎(“to stick, stab, push”). More at put.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpʰɔːta/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːta

Verb

pota ‎(weak verb, third-person singular past indicative potaði, supine potað)

  1. to poke

Conjugation

potast — mediopassive voice (miðmynd)
infinitive
(nafnháttur) 		að potast
supine
(sagnbót) 		potast
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar) 		potandist **
** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses
indicative
(framsöguháttur) 		subjunctive
(viðtengingarháttur)
present
(nútíð) 		ég potast við potumst present
(nútíð) 		ég potist við potumst
þú potast þið potist þú potist þið potist
hann, hún, það potast þeir, þær, þau potast hann, hún, það potist þeir, þær, þau potist
past
(þátíð) 		ég potaðist við potuðumst past
(þátíð) 		ég potaðist við potuðumst
þú potaðist þið potuðust þú potaðist þið potuðust
hann, hún, það potaðist þeir, þær, þau potuðust hann, hún, það potaðist þeir, þær, þau potuðust
imperative
(boðháttur) 		potast (þú) potist (þið)
Forms with appended personal pronoun
potastu potisti *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Irish

Etymology

Borrowing from Middle English potte, from Old English pott ‎(“a pot”), from Proto-Germanic *puttaz ‎(“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budn- ‎(“a type of vessel”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pota m ‎(genitive singular pota, nominative plural potaí)

  1. pot (vessel for cooking or storing food)
  2. (nautical) tub

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
pota phota bpota
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • "pota" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “pota” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Italian

Verb

pota

  1. third-person singular present indicative of potare
  2. second-person singular imperative of potare

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

pōtā

  1. first-person singular present active imperative of pōtō

Maori

Noun

pota

  1. sample

Portuguese

Noun

pota f (plural potas)

  1. Humboldt squid, giant squid

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɔtə/

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