masu
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
masu
- A plant, Hedysarum alpinum, whose edible root is consumed by the Inuit of Alaska.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
masu (plural masu)
- A square wooden box, originally used to measure rice in Japan during the feudal period.
Translations edit
square wooden box
Etymology 3 edit
From Japanese 鱒 (masu, “trout, sea trout, salmon”).
Noun edit
masu (plural masu)
See also edit
- masu-seki (possibly etymologically unrelated, but it is Japanese, like previous etymologies.)
Anagrams edit
Afar edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
másu m
References edit
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
masu
Finnish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
< maha
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
masu (colloquial, childish)
Declension edit
Inflection of masu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | masu | masut | ||
genitive | masun | masujen | ||
partitive | masua | masuja | ||
illative | masuun | masuihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | masu | masut | ||
accusative | nom. | masu | masut | |
gen. | masun | |||
genitive | masun | masujen | ||
partitive | masua | masuja | ||
inessive | masussa | masuissa | ||
elative | masusta | masuista | ||
illative | masuun | masuihin | ||
adessive | masulla | masuilla | ||
ablative | masulta | masuilta | ||
allative | masulle | masuille | ||
essive | masuna | masuina | ||
translative | masuksi | masuiksi | ||
abessive | masutta | masuitta | ||
instructive | — | masuin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms edit
Further reading edit
- “masu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (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
Anagrams edit
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
masu
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Derived from Latin mansus, past participle of maneō (to stay, to remain), with an intrusive U added between the S and the base and the pre-sibilant N being lost.
Verb edit
masu
- past participle of manoir
Old Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Univerbation of má (“if”) + is (“is”)
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
masu (triggers lenition)
- if… is
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10d26
- massu thol atom·aig dó; manid ar lóg
- if it is desire that drives me to it; if it is not for pay
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 19b1
- massu rect fíriánigedar cách
- if it is law that justifies everyone
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10d26