motta

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔʰtːa/

  Rhymes: -ɔʰtːa

From Danish måtte, from Late Latin matta, from Punic or Phoenician (compare Hebrew מיטה \ מִטָּה (mitá, “bed, couch”)).

motta f (genitive singular mottu, plural mottur)

1. rug, mat

• langmotta
• træmotta

Compare English moth, German Motte.

motta f (genitive singular mottu, plural mottur)

1. mite
2. ked

• mottakjøt, mottukjøt
• skrubbmotta

Borrowed from Danish måtte, from Late Latin matta, from Punic or Phoenician (compare Hebrew מיטה \ מִטָּה (mitá, “bed, couch”)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔhta/

  Rhymes: -ɔhta

motta f (genitive singular mottu, nominative plural mottur)

1. rug, mat
2. (colloquial) mustache

Unknown. Probably of Pre-Roman origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔt.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔtta
• Hyphenation: mòt‧ta

motta f (plural motte)

1. landslide

   Synonym: frana

2. rise, slope

   Synonym: rialzo

3. (Venice) a heap of sand or rocks in a riverbed
4. (by extension) an artificial island

• ammottare
• smottare

• motta in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• matto

From mot +‎ ta.

motta (imperative motta, present tense mottar, passive mottas, simple past mottok, past participle mottatt, present participle mottakende)

1. to receive
2. to accept (receive)
3. to get (receive)

• mottakelse, mottagelse
• mottaker, mottager

• mottak

• “motta” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Possibly through Old French mote (“mound”), ultimately from Medieval Latin mota (“a mound, hill”), of Germanic origin, perhaps via Frankish *mot, *motta (“mud, peat, bog, turf”), from Proto-Germanic *mutô, *mudraz, *muþraz (“dirt, filth, mud, swamp”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔt.ta/ (standard)
• Hyphenation: mòt‧ta

motta f (plural motti)

1. motte (mound of earth)
2. clod (lump of earth)
3. block, lump (of food etc.)

   Synonym: munzeḍḍu

• → Italian: Motta (surname)
• → Italian: Motta (toponym)
  • → Italian: Motta Sant'Anastasia
  • → Italian: Motta San Giovanni
  • → Italian: Motta Santa Lucia

• mottaga (dated)
• emotta
• emottaga (dated)

motta (present mottar, preterite mottog, supine mottagit, imperative motta)

1. alternative form of ta emot

• mottagande
• mottagning

• motta in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• motta in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• motta in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)