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

Declension of motta
f1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	motta	mottan	mottur	motturnar
accusative	mottu	mottuna	mottur	motturnar
dative	mottu	mottuni	mottum	mottunum
genitive	mottu	mottunnar	motta	mottanna

• langmotta
• træmotta

Compare English moth, German Motte.

motta f (genitive singular mottu, plural mottur)

1. mite
2. ked

Declension of motta
f1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	motta	mottan	mottur	motturnar
accusative	mottu	mottuna	mottur	motturnar
dative	mottu	mottuni	mottum	mottunum
genitive	mottu	mottunnar	motta	mottanna

• 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

Declension of motta
f-w1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	motta	mottan	mottur	motturnar
accusative	mottu	mottuna	mottur	motturnar
dative	mottu	mottunni	mottum	mottunum
genitive	mottu	mottunnar	motta	mottanna

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)