hafota

Welsh

Etymology

From hafod (“summer dwelling”) +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haˈvɔta/
• Rhymes: -ɔta

Verb

hafota (first-person singular present hafotaf, not mutable)

1. to live in a summer or temporary abode, to pass the summer

Conjugation

Conjugation (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third
present indicative/future	hafotaaf	hafotai	hafota	hafotawn	hafotawch	hafotaant	hafotair
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional	hafotawn	hafotait	hafotaai	hafotaem	hafotaech	hafotaent	hafotaid
preterite	hafotaais	hafotaaist	hafotaodd	hafotaasom	hafotaasoch	hafotaasant	hafotawyd
pluperfect	hafotaaswn	hafotaasit	hafotaasai	hafotaasem	hafotaasech	hafotaasent	hafotaasid, hafotaesid
present subjunctive	hafotawyf	hafotaych	hafotao	hafotaom	hafotaoch	hafotaont	hafotaer
imperative	—	hafota	hafotaed	hafotawn	hafotawch	hafotaent	hafotaer
verbal noun	hafota
verbal adjectives	hafotaedig hafotaadwy

Conjugation (colloquial)

Inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	hafota i, hafotaf i	hafoti di	hafotith o/e/hi, hafotiff e/hi	hafotwn ni	hafotwch chi	hafotan nhw
conditional	hafotwn i, hafotswn i	hafotet ti, hafotset ti	hafotai fo/fe/hi, hafotsai fo/fe/hi	hafoten ni, hafotsen ni	hafotech chi, hafotsech chi	hafoten nhw, hafotsen nhw
preterite	hafotais i, hafotes i	hafotaist ti, hafotest ti	hafotodd o/e/hi	hafoton ni	hafotoch chi	hafoton nhw
imperative	—	hafota	—	—	hafotwch	—
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Coordinate terms

• hendrefa (“to live in a winter abode”)

Related terms

• trawstrefa (“to practise transhumance”)

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “hafota”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies