lakta

See also: lakťa

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlakta/

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• Rhymes: -akta
• Syllabification: lak‧ta

Adjective

lakta (accusative singular laktan, plural laktaj, accusative plural laktajn)

1. milky, lactic

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɒktɒ]
• Hyphenation: lak‧ta
• Rhymes: -tɒ

Etymology 1

From lakik (“to live, reside, inhabit”) +‎ -ta (personal suffix) and -ta (participle-forming suffix).

Verb

lakta

1. (literary) third-person singular indicative past definite of lakik
   • 1972, Jack London, translated by István Bart, Aranyásók Alaszkában (Smoke Bellew)‎^[1]:

     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

1. verbal participle of lakik
   • 1860, Mór Jókai (author), R. Nisbet Bain (translator), Szegény gazdagok ^[2] (The Poor Plutocrats^[3]), 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

Compound words

• emberlakta (inhabited [by humans])
• magyarlakta (inhabited by Hungarians)

Etymology 2

lakik (“to live, reside, inhabit”) +‎ -ta (noun-forming suffix)

Noun

lakta (uncountable)

1. (rare) verbal noun of lakik, his/her/its residence (somewhere)
   • 1913, Géza Gárdonyi, Szunyoghy miatyánkja‎^[4]:

     [A kutyámat] még Pesten laktomban neveztem el Lúnának.

     I named [my dog] Lúna back when I lived in Pest.

   • Tongue-twister. Folk rhyme.^[5]

     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 [the rivers] Duna, Rába, Rábca are gnawing on my feet/legs.

Declension

It mostly occurs currently with the suffix -ban/-ben after any possessive form.

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	lakta	—
accusative	laktát	—
dative	laktának	—
instrumental	laktával	—
causal-final	laktáért	—
translative	laktává	—
terminative	laktáig	—
essive-formal	laktaként	—
essive-modal	laktául	—
inessive	laktában	—
superessive	laktán	—
adessive	laktánál	—
illative	laktába	—
sublative	laktára	—
allative	laktához	—
elative	laktából	—
delative	laktáról	—
ablative	laktától	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	laktáé	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	laktáéi	—

Possessive forms of lakta

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	laktom	—
2nd person sing.	laktod	—
3rd person sing.	lakta	—
1st person plural	laktunk	—
2nd person plural	laktotok	—
3rd person plural	laktuk	—

Further reading

• (participle and noun): lakta in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Latvian

Noun

lakta f (4th declension)

1. anvil

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

lakta (Cyrillic spelling лакта)

1. genitive singular of lakat