móta

See also: mota, möta, and mô tả

Icelandic

Etymology

From mót (form, model, mould) + -a.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmouːta/
  • Rhymes: -ouːta

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • mótun (forming, moulding)

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

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

Derived terms

  • An Móta (Moate)
  • Baile an Mhóta (Ballymount; Ballymote)
  • Móta Gráinne Óige (Woodlawn)
  • móta liath (heavy clay, marl)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
móta mhóta not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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

Further reading

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