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móta

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See also: mota, möta, and mô tả

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From mót (form, model, mould) +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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móta (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative mótaði, supine mótað)

  1. (transitive, with accusative) to form, to mould, to model

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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  • mótun (forming, moulding)

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle English mote, from Old French mote (mound, embankment), from Medieval Latin mota (mound, fortified height), probably of Germanic origin, perhaps via Frankish *mot, *motta (mud, peat, bog, turf), from Proto-Germanic *mutô, *mudraz, *muþraz (dirt, filth, mud, swamp), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mut- (dark, dirty).

Noun

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móta m (genitive singular móta, nominative plural mótaí)

  1. moat (defensive ditch)
    Synonym: díog
  2. mound, dike
  3. mulch (shredded matter for covering the soil)
  4. heavy clay

Declension

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Declension of móta (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative móta mótaí
vocative a mhóta a mhótaí
genitive móta mótaí
dative móta mótaí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an móta na mótaí
genitive an mhóta na mótaí
dative leis an móta
don mhóta
leis na mótaí

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of móta
radical lenition eclipsis
móta mhóta not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ móta”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy

Further reading

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