masu
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English
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
masu
- A plant, Hedysarum alpinum, whose edible root is consumed by the Inuit of Alaska.
Etymology 2
Noun
masu (plural masu)
- A square wooden box, originally used to measure rice in Japan during the feudal period.
Translations
square wooden box
Etymology 3
From Japanese 鱒 (masu, “trout, sea trout, salmon”).
Noun
masu (plural masu)
See also
- masu-seki (possibly etymologically unrelated, but it is Japanese, like previous etymologies.)
Anagrams
Afar
Pronunciation
Noun
másu m
References
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie), Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
masu
Finnish
Alternative forms
Etymology
< maha
Pronunciation
Noun
masu (colloquial, childish)
Declension
| Inflection of masu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | masu | masut | ||
| genitive | masun | masujen | ||
| partitive | masua | masuja | ||
| illative | masuun | masuihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | masu | masut | ||
| accusative | nom. | masu | masut | |
| gen. | masun | |||
| genitive | masun | masujen | ||
| partitive | masua | masuja | ||
| inessive | masussa | masuissa | ||
| elative | masusta | masuista | ||
| illative | masuun | masuihin | ||
| adessive | masulla | masuilla | ||
| ablative | masulta | masuilta | ||
| allative | masulle | masuille | ||
| essive | masuna | masuina | ||
| translative | masuksi | masuiksi | ||
| abessive | masutta | masuitta | ||
| instructive | — | masuin | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
Synonyms
Further reading
- “masu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Anagrams
Japanese
Romanization
masu
Old French
Etymology
Derived from Latin mansus, past participle of maneō (to stay, to remain), with an intrusive U added between the S and the base and the pre-sibilant N being lost.
Verb
masu
- past participle of manoir
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Univerbation of má (“if”) + is (“is”)
Pronunciation
Verb
masu (triggers lenition)
- if… is
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10d26
- massu thol atom·aig dó; manid ar lóg
- if it is desire that drives me to it; if it is not for pay
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 19b1
- massu rect fíriánigedar cách
- if it is law that justifies everyone
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10d26