guur
Afrikaans edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
guur (attributive gure, comparative guurder, superlative guurste)
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Clipping of onguur. A similar development took place in the cognate West Frisian ûnhuer, which yielded njoer.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
guur (comparative guurder, superlative guurst)
- chillingly cold, rainy and windy
Inflection edit
Inflection of guur | ||||
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uninflected | guur | |||
inflected | gure | |||
comparative | guurder | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | guur | guurder | het guurst het guurste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | gure | guurdere | guurste |
n. sing. | guur | guurder | guurste | |
plural | gure | guurdere | guurste | |
definite | gure | guurdere | guurste | |
partitive | guurs | guurders | — |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Afrikaans: guur
References edit
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “guur”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
Somali edit
Verb edit
guur
Yapese edit
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
guur
- Second-person singular pronoun; you
See also edit
Yapese personal pronouns
Singular | Dual | Plural | ||
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First* | inclusive | gadow | gadaed | |
exclusive | gaeg | gamow | gamaed | |
Second | guur | gimeew | gimeed | |
Third | qiir | yow | yaed | |
Other expressions | ||||
Partitive** | bagyow | bagyaed | ||
* The first person can be inclusive (I/we and you) or exclusive (I/we and not you). This differentiation is meaningful only in the dual and in the plural. ** Partitive pronouns are used in expressions such as one of them two (dual) or one of them (plural). |
References edit
- Jensen, John Thayer (1977) Yapese Reference Grammar, Honolulu: The University press of Hawaii, pages 132-135