lakta

lakta

See also: lakťa

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Adjective

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

1. milky, lactic

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɒktɒ]
• Hyphenation: lak‧ta

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, István Bart (translator), Jack London (author), 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’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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Latvian

Noun

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

1. anvil

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

lakta (Cyrillic spelling лакта)

1. genitive singular of lakat