våtå
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- våttå, vuttu (Trøndelag)
Etymology 1
From Old Norse vita, oblique case of viti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²ʋɔtɔ/, /²ʋɔtːɔ/
- Note: All of the declensions have short vowels.
Noun
våtå m (definite singular våtån, definite singular dative våtåm or våtåa, indefinite plural våtåa or våtå, definite plural våtåan, definite plural dative våtåom)
- (dialectal) alternative form of vete (“beacon”)
- (dialectal, Trøndelag) hilltop where a beacon stands or has stood
- oppå våtån ― up by the beacon
Etymology 2
From Old Norse vita, where the vowels are fully levelled. Cf. vårå < vera.
Alternative forms
- våttå (Trøndelag)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²ʋɔtɔ/, /²ʋɔtːɔ/
Verb
våtå (present tense veit or vet, past tense vesst, present participle vesst or vessta)
- (dialectal, Trøndelag, Gudbrandsdal) alternative form of vita (“to know”)
- 1930, Kristofer Uppdal, Galgberget, Oslo: Noregs boklag, page 44:
- Han må gjårå det, og fær ikkj våtå kvifor.
- He has to do it, and doesn’t get to know why.
- 1885, Georg Sauerwein, Frie Viso ifraa Vigguin sungje i Nørdre-Gudbrandsdalsk Dølamaal, Kristiania: Cammermeyer, page 92:
- „Kva’ Ti’ naa kjøm Posten? Imorgo maataa?“
– „Kva’ Ti’ dæ æ inkje saa greidt aa vaataa:
Idag, ell imorgo, ell anen Kvell,
Kanske overmorgo, da kjøm haⁱn lel.“- “What time does the post arrive? Tomorrow?”
– “The time isn’t easy to know:
Today, or tomorrow, or tomorrow night,
Maybe the day after that, then it comes anyway.”
- “What time does the post arrive? Tomorrow?”
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