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Esperanto
Pronunciation
Adjective
lakta (accusative singular laktan, plural laktaj, accusative plural laktajn)
- milky, lactic
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From lakik (“to live, reside, inhabit”) + -ta (personal suffix) and -ta (participle-forming suffix).
Verb
lakta
- (literary) third-person singular indicative past definite of lakik
1972, Jack London, translated by István Bart, 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
- 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
Etymology 2
lakik (“to live, reside, inhabit”) + -ta (noun-forming suffix)
Noun
lakta (uncountable)
- (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 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 Duna, Rába, Rábca are gnawing on my feet/legs.
Declension
It mostly occurs currently with the suffix -ban/-ben after any possessive form.
Further reading
- (participle and noun): lakta 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
Latvian
Noun
lakta ? (??? please provide the declension type!)
- anvil
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
lakta (Cyrillic spelling лакта)
- genitive singular of lakat