nūoŗkū

Livonian edit

Nūoŗkū

Etymology edit

From nūoŗ (“young”) +‎ kū (“moon”). The usage of the adjective nūoŗ – perhaps by contamination with Latvian jauns, as Latvian lacks separate terms for "new" and "young." Compare Finnish uusikuu (“new moon”).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /nuːorʲkuː/

Noun edit

nūoŗkū

new moon

Declension edit

Declension of nūoŗkū (12)

	singular (ikšlug)	plural (pǟgiņlug)
nominative (nominatīv)	nūoŗkū	–
genitive (genitīv)	nūoŗkū	–
partitive (partitīv)	nūoŗkūdõ	–
dative (datīv)	nūoŗkūn	–
instrumental (instrumentāl)	nūoŗkūkõks	–
illative (illatīv)	nūoŗkūzõ	–
inessive (inesīv)	nūoŗkūsõ nūoŗkūs	–
elative (elatīv)	nūoŗkūstõ nūoŗkūst	–