lakta

See also: lakťa

Esperanto

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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

  1. milky, lactic

Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Verb

lakta

  1. (literary) third-person singular indicative past definite of lakik
    • 1972, Jack London, translated by István Bart, Aranyásók Alaszkában (Smoke Bellew)‎:
      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

lakta

  1. verbal participle of lakik
    • 1860, Mór Jókai (author), R. Nisbet Bain (translator), Szegény gazdagok (The Poor Plutocrats), 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 terület ― a region inhabited by Armenians
Derived terms
Compound words
  • emberlakta (inhabited [by humans])
  • magyarlakta (inhabited by Hungarians)

Etymology 2

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

Noun

lakta (uncountable)

  1. (rare) verbal noun of lakik, his/her/its residence (somewhere)
    • 1913, Géza Gárdonyi, Szunyoghy miatyánkja‎:
      [A kutyámat] még Pesten laktomban neveztem el Lúnának.
      I named [my dog] Lúna back when I lived in Pest.
    • Tongue-twister. Folk rhyme.
      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

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

  • (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

Noun

lakta ? (??? please provide the declension type!)

  1. anvil

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

lakta (Cyrillic spelling лакта)

  1. genitive singular of lakat
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