muu

See also: múu, mưu, and mṹṹ

Aghem

Noun

mú'ú

  1. water
    mùu ǹ ...
    the water of the ...

Further reading


Chuukese

Noun

muu

  1. kingdom

Esperanto

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmuu]
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  • Rhymes: -uu
  • Hyphenation: mu‧u

Interjection

muu

  1. moo (the cry of a cow)
  • muĝi (to moo)
  • muĝo (a moo)

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *muu, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *mu. Cognate with Finnish muu, Mansi мо̄т (mōt), Hungarian más.

Pronoun

muu

  1. other

Declension

Further reading


Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmuː/, [ˈmuː]
  • Rhymes: -uː
  • Syllabification(key): muu

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *muu, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *mu. Cognate with Estonian muu, Northern Sami nubbi, Mansi мо̄т (mōt), Hungarian más.

Pronoun

muu

  1. (indefinite) other, another
    Synonyms: eri, toinen
    Antonyms: sama, samainen
  2. (indefinite, in the plural) the others (of people)
  3. (indefinite) else
  4. (~ kuin) but, except
    Kaapissa ei ollut mitään muuta kuin tölkki papuja.
    There was nothing in the cupboard except a tin of beans.
  5. (joku/jokin ~) other, else (not the one previously referred to)

Determiner

muu

  1. other, another
Inflection
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic

Interjection

muu

  1. (onomatopoeia) moo (a sound made by a cow)
Synonyms

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *muu, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *mu. Cognates include Finnish muu and Estonian muu.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

muu

  1. (in the singular) the other
  2. (in the plural) others

Determiner

muu

  1. other, another

Declension

Declension of muu (type 8/maa, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative muu muut
genitive muun muijen
partitive muuta muita
illative muuhu muihe
inessive muus muis
elative muust muist
allative muulle muille
adessive muul muil
ablative muult muilt
translative muuks muiks
essive muunna, muun muinna, muin
exessive1) muunt muint
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.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Derived terms

References

  • V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 101
  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 322

Karelian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *muu. Cognates include Finnish muu and Estonian muu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmuː/
  • Hyphenation: muu

Pronoun

muu

  1. the other, another

Determiner

muu

  1. other, another

References

  • P. Zaykov; L. Rugoyeva (1999) Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 111
  • P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015), “другой”, in Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN

Kumeyaay

Noun

muu

  1. ram, bighorn sheep.

Livvi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *muu. Cognates include Finnish muu and Estonian muu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmuː/
  • Hyphenation: muu
  • Rhymes: -uː

Pronoun

muu

  1. the other, another

Determiner

muu

  1. other, another

Declension

Declension of muu (Type 15/suu, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative muu muut
genitive muun muuloin
partitive muudu muuloi
illative muuh muuloih
inessive muus muulois
elative muuspäi muuloispäi
allative muule muuloile
adessive muul muuloil
ablative muulpäi muuloilpäi
translative muukse muuloikse
essive muunnu muuloinnu
abessive muuttah muuloittah
comitative muunke muuloinke
instructive muuloiči
prolative muuči

References

  • Tatjana Boiko (2019), “muu”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *muu, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *mu.

Pronoun

muu

  1. other

Noun

muu

  1. (onomatopoeia) moo, the characteristic lowing sound made by cattle

Nootka

Numeral

muu

  1. four

References


Portuguese

Interjection

muu

  1. Alternative form of mu

Ulch

Noun

muu

  1. water

References

  • Sonya Oskolskaya, Natasha Stoynova, Some Changes in the Noun Paradigm of Ulcha Under the Language Shift, 2017.

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *muu, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *mu.

Pronunciation

  • (Luuditsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈmuː/, [ˈmuː]
  • Rhymes: -uː
  • Hyphenation: muu

Determiner

muu

  1. other, another

Pronoun

muu

  1. the other, others

Declension

Declension of muu (type I/maa, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative muu muud
genitive muu muije, muijõ
partitive muutõ muitõ
illative muhhu, muhusõ muije, muijõ, muisõ
inessive muuz muiz
elative muussõ muissõ
allative muulõ muilõ
adessive muullõ muillõ
ablative muultõ muiltõ
translative muussi muissi
*) 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.

References

  • V. Hallap, E. Adler, S. Grünberg, M. Leppik (2012), muu”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2 edition, Tallinn
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