kåta

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kata"

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²koːta/

Etymology 1

From a confluence of:

  1. Middle Low German kāte, kōte (“hut”), from Proto-Germanic *kutǭ ~ *kutą; compare German Kate.
  2. A derivative of Proto-Samic *koatē, from Proto-Uralic *kota; compare Southern Sami gåetie.

Whether and how the two terms may be ultimately interrelated is a debated question. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk kote.

Noun

kåta c

  2. a goahti (traditional dwelling of the Sami people)
    Hyponyms: bågstångskåta, klykstångskåta, timmerkåta, torvkåta
  3. (obsolete) hut, cot, cottage
Declension
Declension of kåta
nominative genitive
singular indefinite kåta kåtas
definite kåtan kåtans
plural indefinite kåtor kåtors
definite kåtorna kåtornas
Descendants
  • → German: Kohte

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

kåta

  1. inflection of kåt:
    1. definite singular
    2. plural

See also

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.