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

• eykt

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