olla

Borrowed from Spanish olla, from Latin olla, aulla; akin to Sanskrit उखा (ukhā, “pot”), and probably also Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌽𐍃 (auhns, “oven”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒlə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɒlə

olla (plural ollas)

1. A cooking-pot or earthenware jar used in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries.
   • 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses:

     On top of the counter were three clay jars or ollas. Two of them were empty but the third was covered with the tin lid from a lardpail and the lid was notched to accommodate the handle of an enameled tin dipper.

2. A pot used for cooling water by evaporation in Latin America.
3. An unglazed earthenware pot, buried to provide slow steady irrigation.
   • 2019 March 1, Mary Kathryn Dunston, Farmer's Almanac‎:

     An olla (which literally means “pot”) is a round, unglazed terra cotta clay pot with a long neck that you fill with water and bury next to your plants. It irrigates in the ground.

4. A cinerary urn in ancient Rome.

• 'allo, -alol, Lola, allo, allo-, lalo

From Latin olla (“cooking pot”).

olla f (plural ollas)

1. pot

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “olla”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Inherited from Latin ōlla.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɔ.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈɔ.ʎa]

olla f (plural olles)

1. cooking-pot
2. stew, casserole
3. pool (in a watercourse)

• “olla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

olla

1. Da-infinitive of olema.

Most forms derive from Proto-Finnic *oldak, from Proto-Uralic *wole- / *ole- (see it for more). Cognates include Estonian olema, Erzya улемс (uľems), Hungarian van, volt. The forms on and ovat are irregular, with cognates found in Karelian on, Livonian um, Veps om, Votic on, Võro om/um and ommaq/ummaq. The original form of on was earlier *om, probably from an earlier *oma; ovat in turn is originally from this form with the plural suffix -t attached and has only later been reanalyzed as containing the standard third-person plural ending -vat. This monosyllabic root *wo- / *o- is likely also the origin of the extended (frequentative) form *wole- / *ole-, with the bare root also emerging in another derivative: oma (“own”).[1] However, the alternative is to posit an irregular loss of -l- in the third-person forms due to it being such a common function word.[2]

The potential forms (lie-) derive from Proto-Finnic *leedäk, from *le- (“to become”), probably from earlier Proto-Uralic *lewɜ-.[2] Cognate with Karelian lienöy, Livonian līdõ, Veps lindä, Northern Sami leat, ле- (ľe-) on Erzya левкс (ľevks), Hungarian lenni/legyek.

• IPA^(key): /ˈolːɑˣ/, [ˈo̞lːɑ̝(ʔ)]

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• Rhymes: -olːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ol‧la

olla

1. (copulative) to be (indicating that the subject and the complement of the verb form the same thing)

   Olen onnellinen. ― I am happy.

   Minä olen lääkäri. ― I am a doctor.

   Olen kamalassa kunnossa. ― I'm in an awful shape.

2. (intransitive) to be (occupy a place)

   Minä olen kotona. ― I am at home.

3. (copulative) to be, constitute, make up, form

   Tuo on maanpetos. ― That constitutes (high) treason.

4. (intransitive, impersonal + adessive) to have; to own, to possess

   Synonyms: (to own) omistaa, (discouraged in most cases) omata

   Minulla on kissa. ― I have a cat.

   Minulla on ollut kissa. ― I have had a cat.

   Minulla ei ole kissaa. ― I don't have a cat.

5. (intransitive, impersonal + inessive) to have, to possess (as a feature or capability, as opposed to simple possession; almost always for inanimate subjects)

   Tässä autossa on kaikki lisävarusteet. ― This car has all the accessories.

6. (intransitive, impersonal + adessive or + genitive) to have (a sensation)

   Minulla on nälkä. / Minun on nälkä. ― I am hungry. (literally, “I have hunger.”)

7. (intransitive) Synonym of olla olemassa (“to exist”)

   Ei rakkautta ole. ― Love doesn't exist.

8. (intransitive) to behave, act (as if...) (when followed by a essive plural form of a present active participle with a possessive suffix, or a subordinate clause beginning with (ikään,) kuin, requiring conditional mood)

   Hän oli (ikään), kuin ei olisi huomannut mitään.

   Hän ei ollut huomaavinaan mitään. ― He behaved as if he hadn't noticed anything.

9. (auxiliary) to have (a verb to build active present perfect tense and active past perfect tense, taking active past participle, ending -nut/-nyt (singular) or -neet (pl.))

   Olen jo syönyt tänään. ― I have already eaten today.

   Olemme jo syöneet tänään. ― We have already eaten today.

   Olin jo syönyt. ― I had already eaten.

   Olimme jo syöneet. ― We had already eaten.

10. (auxiliary) to have (a verb to build impersonal simple past tense, impersonal passive present perfect tense and impersonal passive past perfect tense, taking passive past participle, ending -tu/-ty)

    Aamiainen oli jo syöty. ― Breakfast had already been eaten.

11. (intransitive, impersonal) (there) be

    Pöydällä on kissa. ― There is a cat on the table.

    Pöydällä ei ole kissaa. ― There is no cat on the table.

    Pöydällä on kissoja. ― There are (some) cats on the table.

    Pöydällä ei ole kissoja. ― There are no cats on the table.

    Lattialla on rahaa ― There is (some) money on the floor.

12. (intransitive, impersonal + genitive) to have to, must; be obliged/forced to (to do = passive present participle)

    Minun on nyt mentävä. ― I have to go now.

    Minun on palautettava kirja kirjastoon perjantaihin mennessä. ― I have to return the book to the library by Friday.

    Kirja on palautettava kirjastoon perjantaihin mennessä. (passive) ― The book has to be returned to the library by Friday.

    Onko sinut hiljennettävä pakolla? ― Do I have to make you shut your mouth? (literally, “Do you have to be quietened by force?”)

13. (transitive, usually atelic) to play a children's game

    Synonym: leikkiä

    • 2013, “Halihippa”, Tea Hiilloste (lyrics), performed by Tea:

      Sä ja mä ollaan halihippaa,
      yks ja kaks, toinen meistä karkaa...

      You and I are playing hug tag,
      one and two, one of us runs away...

• (to have): In this sense, the verb olla is always in the third-person singular form, and the possessor is indicated with the adessive case. Grammatically speaking, the thing owned is the subject complement of the sentence:

  minulla on ― I have, sinulla on ― you have, hänellä on ― he/she has

  meillä on ― we have, teillä on ― you have, heillä on ― they have

  sillä on ― it has

  Lassilla on ― Lassi has

  kaupungin terveyslautakunnalla on ― the municipal health board has

  • The same applies through all tenses, infinitives and participles (where they make sense), e.g.

    minulla ei olisi ollut ― I would not have had

    minulla rupeaa olemaan ― I am beginning to have

• The meaning "there be" is rarely used without adverbials (such as those describing a location); it is more common to use olla olemassa in such cases.

Colloquially, the present stem ole- may be replaced with oo-, and uniquely for olla, the conditional stem olisi- with oisi-:

• “olla”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

olla

1. inflection of ollar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From English ollie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔlːa/
• Rhymes: -ɔlːa

olla (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative ollaði, supine ollað)

1. (skateboarding) to ollie, perform an ollie

Suppletive:

• Most forms starting with o- derive from Proto-Finnic *oldak.
• The forms on, ono and ovat are related to oma (“own”).
• Forms starting with l- derive from Proto-Finnic *leedäk.

Cognates include Finnish olla (potential lienen) and Estonian olla.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈolːɑ/, [ˈo̞ɫː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈolːɑ/, [ˈo̞ɫːɑ]
• Rhymes: -olː, -olːɑ
• Hyphenation: ol‧la

olla

1. (copulative) to be

   Miä oon laps. ― I am a child.

   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 20:

     Ivo ono Levon veli.

     Ivo is Levo's brother.

   • 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 6:

     Mittaisivat mitälee plaanua mööt, reknaisiit ja sanoivat, etti linnaa saa ono neljä kilometraa i yli tunnin, melkeen, möö leenemmä kois.

     They measured something along the map, counted and said, that it's four kilometers to the city and in an hour, approximately, we would be home.

   • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 91:

     Niku lumi miä oon valkia

     I am as white as snow.

2. (transitive + elative) to consist of

   Ihmiin on ruumeest ja hengest. ― A human consists of a body and a soul.

   • 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. I. Molotsova, Loonnontiito (ensimäin osa): oppikirja alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 6:

     Pintamaanalus voip olla erilaisist maaporodist: savest, liivast, kalkist ja muist.

     The subsoil can consist of various soil types: clay, sand, limestone and other.

3. (transitive, verb in third person, subject in adessive) to have

   Miul ono vene. ― I have a boat.

   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 22:

     Simal ono suma. Siso ompeli suman.

     Sima has a bag. Siso sewed the bag.

   • 1936, V. I. Junus, P. L. Maksimov, Inkeroisin keelen oppikirja alkuşkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 26:

     Meil ono tänäpäivänä ekskurssia.

     We have an excursion today.

   • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva:

     Mikä aika vootta teil ono?

     How old are you?

     (literally, “How many years do you have?”)

4. (auxiliary, + past active participle) Used to form the perfect tense of verbs; have, be

   Miä kenenkää en oo tappant! ― I haven't killed anybody!

• The verb olla, unlike other verbs, uses its potential mood to indicate the future tense:

  Hoomeen miä leenen kois. ― Tomorrow I will be home.

  Konslee miul leenöö koti. ― Someday, I will have a house.

• noissa

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 122
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 361
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 16

• olna (superseded)

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈɔl̪ˠə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈʌl̪ˠə/[1]

olla f

1. genitive singular of olann (“wool”)

Inherited from Latin olla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔl.la/
• Rhymes: -ɔlla
• Hyphenation: òl‧la

olla f (plural olle)

1. earthen jar
2. cooking pot

• allo

From Proto-Finnic *oldak, from Proto-Uralic *wole-.

olla

1. to be

• aula, aulla, ōla

From Proto-Italic *aukslā, from Proto-Indo-European *Hukʷsleh₂, Proto-Indo-European *Hukʷ- (“cooking pot”), of possible substrate origin. Compare Sanskrit उखा (ukhā), Albanian anë, Ancient Greek ἰπνός (ipnós), Proto-Germanic *uhnaz, *uhwnaz, and subsequently Old Norse and Old English ofn (whence English oven).[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈoːl.la/, [ˈoːlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈol.la/, [ˈɔlːä]

ōlla f (genitive ōllae); first declension

1. pot, jar

First-declension noun.

• ollārius
• ollicula
• ollula

• “olla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “olla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• 2. OLLA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• 1 olla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.: “1,077/1”
• “olla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “olla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “olla (ōla)” on page 1,246/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

From Proto-Finnic *oldak. Cognates include Finnish olla and Karelian olla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈolːɑ/
• Hyphenation: ol‧la

olla

1. (copulative) to be

   Varoi on lindu. ― A crow is a bird.

2. (intransitive) to be, to exist

   Sie on perti. ― Over there is a cottage.

3. (transitive, impersonal, subject in adessive) to have

   Minul on kniigu. ― I have a book.

• N. Gilojeva, S. Rudakova (2009) Karjalan kielen Livvin murdehen algukursu [Beginners' course of Karelian language's Livvi dialect]‎ (in Livvi), Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 11
• Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 192

• IPA^(key): /ˈol͈a/

olla f

1. genitive singular of olann (“wool”)

olla

1. nominative plural of al

olla

1. first-person singular past indicative active of valda

From Latin ōllam, accusative singular of ōlla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈoʎa/

olla f (plural ollas)

1. pot
   • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 17r. a.

     Qvãdo ſeyemos ſobre las ollas de la carne & comyemos pã afartura.

     When we sat by the pots of meat and ate bread until we were satiated.

• Spanish: olla

Inherited from Old Spanish olla, from Latin ōlla, from Proto-Italic *aukslā, from Proto-Indo-European *Hukʷsleh₂, Proto-Indo-European *Hukʷ- (“cooking pot”).

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• Syllabification: o‧lla
• Homophone: (with yeísmo) hoya

olla f (plural ollas)

1. pot, pan; kettle (vessel used for cooking food)
2. stew (dish cooked by stewing)
3. pool, whirlpool

• “olla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• Lalo, Lola

From ollon (“glans penis”) +‎ -a.

olla (present ollar, preterite ollade, supine ollat, imperative olla)

1. (slang, vulgar) to touch with one's glans (tip of the penis)

   Han ollade min tandborste på fyllan

   He touched my toothbrush with his penis when he was drunk

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