knir
See also: knír
Volapük
editEtymology
editBorrowed from German knirschen.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editknir (nominative plural knirs)
- a cracking, crunching, grinding or gnashing sound.
- 1952, Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus‛, 8.11,12, translated by Arie de Jong.
- «Sagob oles, das mödikans okömoms se lofüd e se vesüd, ed olenseadons ko ‚Abraham‛, ‚Isaac‛ e ‚Iacob‛ in regän sülas;
du sons regäna posejedoms ini dag plödikün; us odabinons viam e knir tutas».- "I say to you, that many will come from the east and from the west, and they shall together with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven;
while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out in the outmost darkness; over there will be woeful crying and the gnashing of teeth."
- "I say to you, that many will come from the east and from the west, and they shall together with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven;
- 1961, “Tepaneit”, in Volapükagased, no. 1, 4:
- Soaliko binob in cem:
slip efugon kruäliko
de ob, du in neit dagik
letep jäfon me pled hölik,
me tag e hag, seif, pleif,
me drum e brum, me knir, letir,
me stur e mur, noid, sijid
de süt lü yad, de dom lü gad.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1952, Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus‛, 8.11,12, translated by Arie de Jong.
Declension
editdeclension of knir