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Volapük
Etymology
Borrowed from German knirschen.
Pronunciation
Noun
knir (nominative plural knirs)
- a cracking, crunching, grinding or gnashing sound.
- 1952, Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus‛, 8.11,12, translated by Arie de Jong.
«Sagob oles, das mödikans okömoms se lofüd e se vesüd, ed olenseadons ko ‚Abraham‛, ‚Isaac‛ e ‚Iacob‛ in regän sülas;
du sons regäna posejedoms ini dag plödikün; us odabinons viam e knir tutas».- "I say to you, that many will come from the east and from the west, and they shall together with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven;
while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out in the outmost darkness; over there will be woeful crying and the gnashing of teeth."
1961, “Tepaneit”, in Volapükagased, no. 1, 4:Soaliko binob in cem:
slip efugon kruäliko
de ob, du in neit dagik
letep jäfon me pled hölik,
me tag e hag, seif, pleif,
me drum e brum, me knir, letir,
me stur e mur, noid, sijid
de süt lü yad, de dom lü gad.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
declension of knir
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only