muru
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Maori.
NounEdit
muru
- (New Zealand) An act of retaliatory theft among the Maori.
AnagramsEdit
DarkinjungEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
muru
DharugEdit
NounEdit
muru
EstonianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Possibly from Proto-Finnic *muro, compare dialectal Finnish muro (“chickweed”), Võro muro, moro.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
muru (genitive muru, partitive muru)
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | muru | murud |
accusative | muru | murud |
genitive | muru | murude |
partitive | muru | murusid |
illative | murru murusse |
murudesse |
inessive | murus | murudes |
elative | murust | murudest |
allative | murule | murudele |
adessive | murul | murudel |
ablative | murult | murudelt |
translative | muruks | murudeks |
terminative | muruni | murudeni |
essive | muruna | murudena |
abessive | muruta | murudeta |
comitative | muruga | murudega |
Further readingEdit
- muru in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik
- muru in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat
- muru in Raadik, M., editor (2018), Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, →ISBN
- muru in Sõnaveeb
FalaEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Galician-Portuguese muro, from Latin murus, from Latin *moerus, *moiros, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to fix, to build fortifications or fences, strengthen”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
muru m (plural murus)
ReferencesEdit
FinnishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Finnic *muru. Equivalent to mur- + -u, from the same root as murea and murtaa.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
muru
- crumb
- (colloquial) honey (term of affection)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:kultanen
DeclensionEdit
Inflection of muru (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | muru | murut | |
genitive | murun | murujen | |
partitive | murua | muruja | |
illative | muruun | muruihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | muru | murut | |
accusative | nom. | muru | murut |
gen. | murun | ||
genitive | murun | murujen | |
partitive | murua | muruja | |
inessive | murussa | muruissa | |
elative | murusta | muruista | |
illative | muruun | muruihin | |
adessive | murulla | muruilla | |
ablative | murulta | muruilta | |
allative | murulle | muruille | |
essive | muruna | muruina | |
translative | muruksi | muruiksi | |
instructive | — | muruin | |
abessive | murutta | muruitta | |
comitative | — | muruineen |
Possessive forms of muru (type valo) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | muruni | murumme |
2nd person | murusi | murunne |
3rd person | murunsa |
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- "muru" in Kielitoimiston sanakirja (Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish).
GamilaraayEdit
NounEdit
muru
IngrianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Finnic *muru, equivalent to murtaa (“to break”) + -u. Cognates include Finnish muru and Estonian muru.
PronunciationEdit
- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈmuru/, [ˈmuru]
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈmuru/, [ˈmuru]
- Rhymes: -uru
- Hyphenation: mu‧ru
NounEdit
muru
- crumb
- 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 10:
- Noistii joka päivä viskoima[a] lavvan päälle muruja, kovasija ja jyvijä.
- They began to throw crumbs, crusts and grain onto the board every day.
- tyurya (soup consisting of bread crumbs in milk)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of muru (type 4/koivu, no gradation, gemination) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | muru | murut |
genitive | murun | murruin, muruloin |
partitive | murrua | muruja, muruloja |
illative | murruu | murrui, muruloihe |
inessive | murus | muruis, murulois |
elative | murust | muruist, muruloist |
allative | murulle | muruille, muruloille |
adessive | murul | muruil, muruloil |
ablative | murult | muruilt, muruloilt |
translative | muruks | muruiks, muruloiks |
essive | murunna, murruun | muruinna, muruloinna, murruin, muruloin |
exessive1) | murunt | muruint, muruloint |
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive. |
ReferencesEdit
- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 320
KarelianEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
muru (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
DeclensionEdit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Michoacán MazahuaEdit
NounEdit
muru
Norwegian NynorskEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- murru (Trøndelag)
EtymologyEdit
Metaphony of Old Norse mǫru, oblique singular forms of mara. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *marǭ, whence also modern English mare (“evil spirit”).
NounEdit
muru f (definite singular murua or (defunct) muro, indefinite plural murur, definite plural murune)
- (dialectal or nonstandard since 1917) alternative form of mare (“evil spirit”)
- 1954, Fjellstad, Lars M., “Murua”, in Haugfolk og trollskap, page 18:
- Murua var atterganger etter ugifte kvinnfolk som ikkje hadde hatt mann, sa dei gamle[.]
- The mare[s were] the ghost[s] of unmarried womenfolk which never had had a man, said the old ones.
- 1918, Gamalt fraa Numedal, volume 3, Gunleikson, page 24:
- Krøteri var ute for muro, dei med.
- Even the cattle were exposed to the mare-wight.
Usage notesEdit
- This form was the standard form allowed under the scarcely used Midlandsnormalen of 1901, alongside maru. It had the inflected forms muro, murur and murune, in the definite singular, indefinite plural and definite plural respectively. These forms faded into oblivion and were definitely defunct by the spelling reform of 1917.
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
muru m inan
SardinianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin mūrus. Compare Italian muro.
NounEdit
muru
SicilianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin mūrus. Compare Italian muro.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
VepsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Finnic *muru.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
muru
InflectionEdit
Inflection of muru (inflection type 1/ilo) | |||
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nominative sing. | muru | ||
genitive sing. | murun | ||
partitive sing. | murud | ||
partitive plur. | muruid | ||
singular | plural | ||
nominative | muru | murud | |
accusative | murun | murud | |
genitive | murun | muruiden | |
partitive | murud | muruid | |
essive-instructive | murun | muruin | |
translative | muruks | muruikš | |
inessive | murus | muruiš | |
elative | muruspäi | muruišpäi | |
illative | muruhu | muruihe | |
adessive | murul | muruil | |
ablative | murulpäi | muruilpäi | |
allative | murule | muruile | |
abessive | muruta | muruita | |
comitative | murunke | muruidenke | |
prolative | murudme | muruidme | |
approximative I | murunno | muruidenno | |
approximative II | murunnoks | muruidennoks | |
egressive | murunnopäi | muruidennopäi | |
terminative I | muruhusai | muruihesai | |
terminative II | murulesai | muruilesai | |
terminative III | murussai | — | |
additive I | muruhupäi | muruihepäi | |
additive II | murulepäi | muruilepäi |
ReferencesEdit
- Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “крошка”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
VoticEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Finnic *muru.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
muru
- small piece, bit, morsel
- crumb
- sop, milksop (bread sopped in water or milk)
- (figuratively) (not) one bit
InflectionEdit
Declension of muru (type II/võrkko, no gradation) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | muru | murud |
genitive | muru | muruje, murujõ, murui |
partitive | murrua | muruitõ, murui |
illative | murru, murrusõ | muruje, murujõ, muruisõ |
inessive | muruz | muruiz |
elative | murussõ | muruissõ |
allative | murulõ | muruilõ |
adessive | murullõ | muruillõ |
ablative | murultõ | muruiltõ |
translative | murussi | muruissi |
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive. |
ReferencesEdit
- V. Hallap, E. Adler, S. Grünberg, M. Leppik (2012), “muru”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2 edition, Tallinn
YagaraEdit
NounEdit
muru
- Alternative form of muro.
ReferencesEdit
- State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Yugarabul Body Parts.