maht

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See also: māht and mäht

Estonian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Noun

maht (genitive mahu, partitive mahtu)

  1. volume (three-dimensional measure of space)
  2. volume (quantity)

Declension

Declension of maht (ÕS type 22e/riik, t-ø gradation)
singular plural
nominative maht mahud
accusative nom.
gen. mahu
genitive mahtude
partitive mahtu mahte
mahtusid
illative mahtu
mahusse 		mahtudesse
mahesse
inessive mahus mahtudes
mahes
elative mahust mahtudest
mahest
allative mahule mahtudele
mahele
adessive mahul mahtudel
mahel
ablative mahult mahtudelt
mahelt
translative mahuks mahtudeks
maheks
terminative mahuni mahtudeni
essive mahuna mahtudena
abessive mahuta mahtudeta
comitative mahuga mahtudega

Further reading

  • “maht”, in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
  • “maht”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • “maht”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
  • maht in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Gothic

Romanization

maht

  1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌷𐍄

Old English

Pronunciation

Noun

maht f

  1. Alternative form of miht

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mahti.

Cognate with Old Saxon maht, Old English miht, Old Frisian macht, Old Norse máttr, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (mahts).

Noun

maht f

  1. might

Declension

Declension of maht (feminine i-stem)
case singular plural
nominative maht mahti
accusative maht mahti
genitive mahti mahto
dative mahti mahtim, mahten

Descendants

  • Middle High German: maht

References

  1. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mahti.

Compare Old High German maht, Old English miht, Old Frisian macht, Old Norse máttr, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (mahts).

Noun

maht f

  1. might

Declension

Declension of maht (irregular)
singular plural
nominative maht maht
accusative mahtes mahte
genitive mahti mahti
dative mahtō mahtum
instrumental — —


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