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Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse kunta, from Proto-Germanic *kuntǭ.
Pronunciation
Noun
kunta f (genitive singular kuntu, plural kuntur)
- (vulgar) cunt
- Synonyms: kvennskøp, (vulgar) fisa
Declension
Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *kunta, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kunta. Cognates include Estonian -kond, Livonian -gõnd (kōzgõnd), Votic kuntõ, Erzya кондямо (konďamo), Moksha кондя (konďa), Northern Mansi (χōnt) and Hungarian had.
Pronunciation
Noun
kunta
- municipality (incorporated town or village)
- maaseutukunta ― rural municipality
- Kuusamon kunta ― municipality of Kuusamo
- (in compounds) used to form nouns that refer to administrative or functional regions
- hiippa (“mitre”) + kunta → hiippakunta (“diocese”)
- kihla- + kunta → kihlakunta (“hundred (administrative division)”)
- kalastus (“fishing”) + kunta → kalastuskunta (“fishery board”)
- kuningas (“king”) + kunta → kuningaskunta (“kingdom”)
- maa (“land”) + kunta → maakunta (“province”)
- seura (“company, companionship”) + kunta → seurakunta (“parish”)
- (in compounds) used to form nouns that refer to multimember bodies, organizations etc.
- edustaa (“to represent”) + kunta → eduskunta (“parliament”)
- johto (“management”) + kunta → johtokunta (“board of directors”)
- palo (“fire”) + kunta → palokunta (“fire brigade”)
- veli (“brother”) + kunta → veljeskunta (“fraternity”)
- sisar (“sister”) + kunta → sisarkunta (“sisterhood, sorority”)
- (in compounds) used to form nouns that refer to large groups of creatures or things as a whole
- aurinko (“sun”) + kunta → aurinkokunta (“solar system”)
- henkilö (“person”) + kunta → henkilökunta (“staff”)
- ihminen (“human”) + kunta → ihmiskunta (“humankind”)
- kansa (“people”) + kunta → kansakunta (“nation”)
- kivi (“stone”) + kunta → kivikunta (“mineral kingdom”)
- äänestäjä (“voter”) + kunta → äänestäjäkunta (“electorate”)
- (in compounds) used with certain numerals to represent an approximate amount
- kymmenen (“ten”) + kunta → kymmenkunta (“about ten”)
- sata (“a hundred”) + kunta → satakunta (“about a hundred”)
- tuhat (“a thousand”) + kunta → tuhatkunta (“about a thousand”)
- (taxonomy) kingdom
- eläinkunta ― animal kingdom
- (mathematics, set theory) field
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Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse kunta, from Proto-Germanic *kuntǭ, cognate with English cunt.
Pronunciation
Noun
kunta f (genitive singular kuntu, nominative plural kuntur)
- (vulgar) cunt
Declension
Javanese
Romanization
kunta
- Romanization of ꦏꦸꦤ꧀ꦠ
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *kuntǭ, whence also Middle English cunte (English cunt), Middle Low German kunte (all meaning “cunt”), Dutch kont (“arse”).
Noun
kunta f (genitive kuntu, plural kuntur)
- cunt
Declension
Declension of kunta (weak ōn-stem)
Descendants
Swedish
Etymology
Cognate with English cunt.
Noun
kunta c
- (dialectal) cunt (female genitalia)
Declension
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References
Wanyi
Etymology
Related to Garawa kunda (“tree”).
Noun
kunta
- tree
References
- Mary Laughren, Rob Pensalfini, Tom Mylne, Accounting for verb-initial order in an Australian language, in Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages (2005)