mustar

See also: mustár and muștar

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English must, German musste, first and third person preterite of müssen. Cognate with Dutch moest, Swedish måste. Decision no. 149, Progreso III.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /musˈtar/

Verb

mustar (present mustas, past mustis, future mustos, conditional mustus, imperative mustez)

1. (intransitive) must, to have to, to be under the necessity of, be obliged

   Quon on mustas facar por enirar en la cielo?

   What must one do to enter heaven?

   Il ne povas venar kun me, il mustas laborar.

   He can't come with me, he has to work.

2. (past tense) had to

Conjugation

    Conjugation of mustar

		present		past		future
infinitive		mustar		mustir		mustor
tense		mustas		mustis		mustos
conditional		mustus
imperative		mustez
adjective active participle		mustanta		mustinta		mustonta
adverbial active participle		mustante		mustinte		mustonte
nominal active participle	singular	mustanto		mustinto		mustonto
	plural	mustanti		mustinti		mustonti

Further reading

• Progreso I (in Ido), 1908–1909, page 570
• Progreso II (in Ido), 1909–1910, page 29, 31, 166, 354, 355
• Progreso III (in Ido), 1910–1911, page 530
• Progreso VI (in Ido), 1913–1914, page 487

Irish

Alternative forms

• musdar (obsolete)

Etymology

From English muster, from Anglo-Norman mostrer, Middle French monstrer, moustrer, from Latin mōnstrō (“to show”), from moneō (“to admonish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmˠʊsˠt̪ˠəɾˠ/

Noun

mustar m (genitive singular mustair, nominative plural mustair)

1. (military) muster
2. ostentation, display
3. swagger, flash, flashiness, pomp

Declension

Declension of mustar

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative mustar mustair Vocative a mhustair a mhustara Genitive mustair mustar Dative mustar mustair

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an mustar na mustair Genitive an mhustair na mustar Dative leis an mustar don mhustar leis na mustair

Derived terms

• mustar gan ghustal
• mustrach
• rolla mustair (“muster roll”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
mustar	mhustar	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “mustar”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 504
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mustar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN