taita

See also: täitä, täita, and Taita

Finnish

Verb

taita

1. inflection of taittaa:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Anagrams

• -ittaa, aitat, aitta, taiat

Ingrian

Verb

taita

1. (dialectal) Alternative spelling of taitaa
   • 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by Mihailov and P. I. Maksimov, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 5:

     Taita möö hävitimmä napravlenian (poolen), kons jooksimma oravan jälest.

     Supposedly we lost our napravlenia (direction), when we were running after the squirrel.

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 568

Spanish

Etymology

From Lunfardo, from Latin tata.

Noun

taita m (plural taitas)

1. (Argentina, Uruguay) valiant and handsome man
2. (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, childish) daddy

   Synonym: tata

3. (Colombia) Used by the indigenous Inga people as a title meaning elder deserving of respect, relates to traditional medicine

Descendants

• → Quechua: tayta

See also

• Lunfardo at Wikipedia

Further reading

• “taita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *taitadak, which has developed into an adverb.

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑi̯tɑː/, [ˈtɑi̯tɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑi̯tɑː
• Hyphenation: tai‧ta

Adverb

taita

1. probably

References

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “taitaa”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn