svati

See also: svatí and svätí

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish swatać and Russian сва́тать (svátatʹ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsvati/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ati
• Syllabification: sva‧ti

Verb

svati (present svatas, past svatis, future svatos, conditional svatus, volitive svatu)

1. (transitive) to act as a matchmaker, to intermeddle, to matchmake

Conjugation

Conjugation of svati

		present		past		future
		singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
tense		svatas		svatis		svatos
active participle		svatanta	svatantaj	svatinta	svatintaj	svatonta	svatontaj
	acc.	svatantan	svatantajn	svatintan	svatintajn	svatontan	svatontajn
passive participle		svatata	svatataj	svatita	svatitaj	svatota	svatotaj
	acc.	svatatan	svatatajn	svatitan	svatitajn	svatotan	svatotajn
nominal active participle		svatanto	svatantoj	svatinto	svatintoj	svatonto	svatontoj
	acc.	svatanton	svatantojn	svatinton	svatintojn	svatonton	svatontojn
nominal passive participle		svatato	svatatoj	svatito	svatitoj	svatoto	svatotoj
	acc.	svataton	svatatojn	svatiton	svatitojn	svatoton	svatotojn
adverbial active participle		svatante		svatinte		svatonte
adverbial passive participle		svatate		svatite		svatote
		infinitive	svati	imperative	svatu	conditional	svatus

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English Swati (“the Swati language”), with English ⟨w⟩ adapted as Norwegian ⟨v⟩.

The English name is ultimately from either Swazi siSwati (“the Swati language”) or emaSwati (“the Swati people”), the singular of the latter being liSwati (“a Swati person”). These forms contain the noun-class prefixes si- (“class 7 prefix”), ema- (“class 6 prefix”) and li- (“class 5 prefix”), attached to the stem -Swati, which is based on the royal name Mswati. Doublet of swazi (“member of the Swati people”).

The spelling svati was officially standardized for both Bokmål and Nynorsk by Språkrådet on 24 February 2021.

Compare Norwegian Nynorsk svati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʋɑː.ti/
• Rhymes: -ɑːti
• Hyphenation: sva‧ti

Noun

svati (uncountable)

1. Swati, a Bantu language of the Nguni group, spoken chiefly in Eswatini and South Africa

Related terms

• Eswatini (“country in Southern Africa”)
• Swaziland (“former name of Eswatini”)

Anagrams

• vista

References

• “swazi” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “swazi” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).