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See also: múu, mưu, and mṹṹ

Aghem

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Noun

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mú'ú

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

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Chuukese

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Noun

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muu

  1. kingdom

Esperanto

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Etymology

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Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

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

Interjection

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muu

  1. moo (the cry of a cow)
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Estonian

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Etymology

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

Pronoun

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muu (genitive muu, partitive muud)

  1. other

Declension

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Declension of muu (ÕS type 26i/idee, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative muu muud
accusative nom.
gen. muu
genitive muude
partitive muud muid
muusid
illative muusse muudesse
muisse
inessive muus muudes
muis
elative muust muudest
muist
allative muule muudele
muile
adessive muul muudel
muil
ablative muult muudelt
muilt
translative muuks muudeks
muiks
terminative muuni muudeni
essive muuna muudena
abessive muuta muudeta
comitative muuga muudega

Further reading

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  • muu”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • muu”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
  • muu in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Finnish

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Pronoun

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muu

  1. (indefinite) other, another
    Synonyms: eri, toinen
    Antonyms: sama, samainen
    joku muusomeone else
    jokin muusomething else
  2. (indefinite, in the plural) the others (of people)
  3. (indefinite) else
    Kaapissa ei ollut mitään muuta kuin tölkki papuja.
    There was nothing in the cupboard except a tin of beans.
    (literally, “There was nothing else in the cupboard than a tin of beans.”)

Determiner

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muu

  1. other, another
Inflection
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Derived terms
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Further reading

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Etymology 2

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Onomatopoeic

Interjection

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muu

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

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Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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muu

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

Determiner

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muu

  1. other, another
Declension
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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
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Antonyms
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  • (antonym(s) of the other): yks
  • (antonym(s) of others): yks
  • (antonym(s) of other): sama, yks
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Onomatopoeic. Akin to Finnish muu.

Pronunciation

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Interjection

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muu

  1. moo

References

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  • V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 101
  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 322

Karelian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

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muu

  1. the other, another

Determiner

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muu

  1. other, another

References

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  • 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

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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muu

  1. ram, bighorn sheep.

Livvi

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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muu

  1. the other, another

Determiner

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muu

  1. other, another

Declension

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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

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

Ludian

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Etymology

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

Pronoun

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muu

  1. other
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Noun

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muu

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

Nootka

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Numeral

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muu

  1. four

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Old Galician-Portuguese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin mūlum.

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Noun

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muu m (plural muus)

  1. a mule
  2. (figurative, derogatory, sexuality) passive homosexual lover
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Descendants

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  • Portuguese: mu

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Portuguese

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Interjection

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muu

  1. Alternative form of mu

Ulch

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Noun

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muu

  1. water

References

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

Votic

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Determiner

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muu

  1. other, another

Pronoun

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muu

  1. the other, others

Declension

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Declension of muu (type I/maa, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative muu muud
genitive muu muijõ
partitive muutõ muitõ
illative muhhu, muhusõ 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 (sg) or the genitive.
***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References

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