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Estonian
Noun
maata
Finnish
Etymology 1
From Proto-Finnic *magat'ak.
Pronunciation
Verb
maata
- (intransitive) to be lying (in a lying or horizontal position) [with inessive or adessive ‘in/on’]
- Makasin sohvalla ja katselin televisiota, kun vaimo tuli kotiin. / Makasin sohvalla katselemassa televisiota, kun vaimo tuli kotiin.
- I was lying on the couch (and) watching television when my wife came home.
- (intransitive) to lie down, lie [with illative or allative ‘in/on’]
- (intransitive) to lie unused
- (intransitive, reciprocal) to lie, have sex [with kanssa ‘with’]
- (transitive, archaic, biblical, law, of a male) to lay, to have sex with, to have one's way with
- 1992, Raamattu [The Bible], Helsinki: Suomen evankelis-luterilainen kirkko, 1. Mooseksen kirja (Genesis) 19:5:
- Tuo heidät tänne, me haluamme maata heidät.
- Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.
- (dialectal) synonym of nukkua (“to sleep”)
Conjugation
Derived terms
Adverb
maata (dialectal)
- synonym of maate
Further reading
- “maata”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
maata
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
Verb
maata
Anagrams
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Ingrian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Finnic *magat'ak. Cognates include Finnish maata and Estonian magada.
Pronunciation
Verb
maata
- (intransitive) to sleep
- 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 32:
- Makkaa aina yksintää, siis et noise läsimää.
- Always sleep alone, so you don't get ill.
- 1936, V. I. Junus, P. L. Maksimov, Inkeroisin keelen oppikirja alkuşkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 4:
- Karhu makajaa. Hanhi lentää.
- The bear sleeps. The goose flies.
- (intransitive) to lie down, lie
- 1915, Volmari Porkka, quoting Oute Loan kylästä, “1140. Soikkola, Tarinaisi, III2”, in Väinö Salminen, editor, Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot. Länsi-Inkerin runot, volume III1, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, lines 1-2:
- Etsi maata maataksee // Lehtoa levätäksee
- She searched for land to lie down // For woods to take a break
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (sleep): mammata
- (lie down): loottiissa
Derived terms
See also
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Noun
maata
References
- Fedor Tumansky (1790), “маккама”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 697
- V. I. Junus (1936), Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 66
- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 300
- Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014), Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку, →ISBN, page 73
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Kankanaey
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
maáta
References
- Morice Vanoverbergh (1933), “áta”, in A Dictionary of Lepanto Igorot or Kankanay. As it is spoken at Bauco (Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek; XII), Mödling bei Wien, St. Gabriel, Österreich: Verlag der Internationalen Zeitschrift „Anthropos“, →OCLC, page 41
- Allen, Larry (2021), “áta”, in Kankanaey – English Dictionary, Summer Institute of Linguistics
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Sambali
Adjective
maatà
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