ótta

See also: otta and otta-

Hungarian

Etymology

ó +‎ -tta

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈoːtːɒ]
  • Hyphenation: ót‧ta

Verb

ótta

  1. third-person singular indicative past definite of ó

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse ótta from Proto-Germanic *unhtwǭ. Cognate with Old English ūhta, Old Saxon ūhta, Old High German ūhta, regional German Uchte (midnight mass), Norwegian Bokmål otte, and as the enhanced form Dutch ochtend (morning).

Noun

ótta f (genitive singular óttu, no plural)

  1. the last part of the night before morning, roughly 3 a.m.; the start of the second of the eight eyktir

Declension

Declension of ótta (sg-only feminine)
singular
indefinite definite
nominative ótta óttan
accusative óttu óttuna
dative óttu óttunni
genitive óttu óttunnar

See also

Old Norse

Etymology 1

Noun

ótta

  1. oblique singular of ótti

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *unhtwǭ. Cognate with Old English ūhta, Old Saxon ūhta, Old High German ūhta, regional German Uchte (midnight mass), Norwegian Bokmål otte, and as the enhanced form Dutch ochtend (morning).

Noun

ótta f (genitive óttu)

  1. the last part of the night just before daybreak
Descendants
  • Icelandic: ótta

Further reading

  • Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “ótta”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press