fota

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See also: FOTA, fóta-, and fotă

Fula

Adverb

fota

  1. (Pular) very, very much

References

Ladino

Etymology

From Greek φώτα (fóta, “lights”), ultimately from Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs), φᾰ́ος (pháos), from Proto-Hellenic *pʰáos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os, from *bʰeh₂- (“shine”).

Noun

fota f (Latin spelling)

  1. the moment when work, motion, traffic reaches its highest intensity

Further reading

  • Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977) “fóta”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 216

Latin

Participle

fōta

  1. inflection of fōtus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

fōtā

  1. ablative feminine singular of fōtus

Old Irish

Etymology

An io-ia extension of an erstwhile genitive singular of fot (“length”), which Pokorny assumes to be a u-stem before it became a neuter o-stem. Supporting this is the occurrence of the forms fota and foto in the Annals of Ulster for the Old Irish period and foto even appearing in the Milan glosses.

Pronunciation

Adjective

fota

  1. long
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 60a10
      .i. non ł coní deninn uide foto do tuidecht asindoiri
      i.e. non, or, that I might not make a long journey to come out of the Captivity.

Inflection

The io-ia declension seems to be completely interchangeable with the indeclinable forms foto and fota.

io/iā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative fotae fotae fotae
Vocative fotai
Accusative fotae fotai
Genitive fotai fotae fotai
Dative fotu fotai fotu
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative fotai fotai
Vocative fotai
fotu*
Accusative fotai
fotu*
Genitive fotae
Dative fotaib
Notes * when substantivized

Antonyms

Descendants

  • Irish: fada
  • Manx: foddey
  • Scottish Gaelic: fada

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
fota ḟota fota
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Romanian

Pronunciation

Noun

fota f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of fotă

Swedish

Etymology

Clipping of fotografera

Verb

fota (present fotar, preterite fotade, supine fotat, imperative fota)

  1. (colloquial) to photograph, to shoot
    Synonyms: plåta, fotografera

Conjugation

Conjugation of fota (weak)
Active Passive
Infinitive fota fotas
Supine fotat fotats
Imperative fota —
Imper. plural1 foten —
Present Past Present Past
Indicative fotar fotade fotas fotades
Ind. plural1 fota fotade fotas fotades
Subjunctive2 fote fotade fotes fotades
Participles
Present participle fotande
Past participle fotad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

References

Anagrams

Tetum

Etymology

From *bota, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *betak. Compare Tagalog bitak.

Verb

fota

  1. to split, to crack, to burst

Xhosa

Verb

-fota?

  1. photograph, take a photo

Inflection

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