guta

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀataq.

• IPA^(key): /ɡuˈtaʔ/

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• Hyphenation: gu‧ta

gutâ (Basahan spelling ᜄᜓᜆ)

1. (Naga) coconut milk

   Synonym: natok

• guda (1910–), kuda (1930–), skuda (1970–)

Borrowed from Swedish god or perhaps German gut. First attested in c. 1900. Compare gutis, gutte and gita, all in the sense "good" or "nice"".

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡutɑ/,
• Rhymes: -utɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): gu‧ta

guta

1. (Helsinki slang) good, pleasurable

   tehdä gutaa ― to be healthy for one, to be pleasurable

2. (Helsinki slang) tasty, sweet

• Seldom inflected aside of the singular partitive gutaa.

• Forsberg, Ulla-Maija (2021) Stadin slangin etymologinen sanakirja [Etymological Dictionary of Helsinki Slang]‎ (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSES 2021"), Helsinki: Gaudeamus, →ISBN

From Latin gutta (“drop”).

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: gu‧ta
• Rhymes: -tɒ

guta (plural guták)

1. (colloquial) apoplexy

   Synonyms: gutaütés, szélütés, szélhűdés, apoplexia

• guta 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
• guta in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡʊt̪ˠə/

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

guta m (genitive singular guta, nominative plural gutaí)

1. filth, mire
2. filthy place; filthy creature

From Old Irish gutte, from guth + -de, a calque of Latin vōcālis.

guta m (genitive singular guta, nominative plural gutaí)

1. vowel

guta m (genitive singular guta)

1. Alternative form of gúta (“gut”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “guta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gutte”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “guta”, in The National Terminology Database for Irish, Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU and Foras na Gaeilge, 2006–2025

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guta f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of gută

• gutta (Rumantsch Grischun)
• guota (Sursilvan)
• gotta (Surmiran)
• guotta (Puter, Vallader)
• aguotta (Puter)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

guta f (plural gutas)

1. (carpentry, Sutsilvan) nail

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡu.t̪a/

guta

1. (transitive) to close the lid of; to shut, cover

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics