mú

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mu"

Hungarian

Etymology

An onomatopoeia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmuː]

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• Rhymes: -muː

Interjection

mú

1. moo (the characteristic sound made by a cow)

   Synonym: bú

Noun

mú

1. (rare) moo (sound of a cow)
   • 1998..2005 Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach. Egybefont Gondolatok Birodalma. Typotex, Budapest, 2005, tr. Lipovszki Gábor, page 312

     Hangyász: Abszurdum! Az ön „mu”-ja olyan, mint egy buta tehén mú-ja.

     That’s absurd! Your “mu” is like the moo of a stupid cow.
     (Note: the mu here refers to the “neither yes nor no” concept, which is discussed in the dialog.)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	mú	múk
accusative	mút	múkat
dative	múnak	múknak
instrumental	múval	múkkal
causal-final	múért	múkért
translative	múvá	múkká
terminative	múig	múkig
essive-formal	múként	múkként
essive-modal	múul	—
inessive	múban	múkban
superessive	mún	múkon
adessive	múnál	múknál
illative	múba	múkba
sublative	múra	múkra
allative	múhoz	múkhoz
elative	múból	múkból
delative	múról	múkról
ablative	mútól	múktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	múé	múké
non-attributive possessive - plural	múéi	múkéi

Possessive forms of mú
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	múm	múim
2nd person sing.	múd	múid
3rd person sing.	múja	múi
1st person plural	múnk	múink
2nd person plural	mútok	múitok
3rd person plural	mújuk	múik

Mandarin

Alternative forms

• mu — nonstandard

Romanization

mú (mu², Zhuyin ㄇㄨˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 恈
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 模
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 橂
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 毌
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 毪
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 氁
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 獏
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 譕

Tày

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ʰmuːᴮ. Cognate with Northern Thai ᩉ᩠ᨾᩪ᩵, Lao ໝູ່ (mū), Lü ᦖᦴᧈ (ṁuu¹), Shan မူႇ (mùu), Ahom 𑜉𑜥 (mū), Thai หมู่ (mùu).

Pronunciation

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [mu˧˥]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [mu˦]

Noun

mú (㑄)

1. a group of people

   pây pền mú ― to go in a group of people

   Mú tỉ quá khói kéo dá

   That group of people passed the pass

2. relative

   tó mú căn ― related to each other

References

• Hoàng Văn Ma, Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
• Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[1][2] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
• Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[3] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

Wutung

Noun

mú

1. fish

References

• Marmion, Douglas E. Topics in the Phonology and Morphology of Wutung. 2010.