morna

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese morna.

Pronunciation

Noun

morna (countable and uncountable, plural mornas)

  1. (uncountable, music) A genre of Cape Verdean music and dance.
    • 2005, Kate Tuttle, “Evora, Cesaria”, in Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates (Jr.), editors, Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 593:
      She [Cesária Évora] is most famous for singing morna, which roughly translates to “songs of mourning.” As with many other kinds of folk music, morna songs are handed down from generation to generation, tracing dominant themes in a people's history.
  2. (countable) A piece of music in this style.

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Galician

Adjective

morna

  1. feminine singular of morno

Old Norse

Etymology 1

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Alternative forms

Verb

morna

  1. (impersonal) to dawn (become morning)
Conjugation
Conjugation of morna — impersonal, active (weak class 2)
infinitive morna
past participle mornaðr
indicative present past
3rd-person singular mornar mornaði
subjunctive present past
3rd-person singular morni mornaði
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Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
  • Icelandic: morgna

Noun

morna

  1. accusative plural of morginn
  2. genitive plural of morginn

References

  • “morna”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *murnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to think; remember”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽𐌰𐌽 (maurnan) and English mourn.

Verb

morna

  1. (intransitive) to waste away
  2. (transitive) to cause to pine
Conjugation
Conjugation of morna — active (weak class 2)
infinitive morna
present participle mornandi
past participle mornaðr
indicative present past
1st-person singular morna mornaða
2nd-person singular mornar mornaðir
3rd-person singular mornar mornaði
1st-person plural mornum mornuðum
2nd-person plural mornið mornuðuð
3rd-person plural morna mornuðu
subjunctive present past
1st-person singular morna mornaða
2nd-person singular mornir mornaðir
3rd-person singular morni mornaði
1st-person plural mornim mornaðim
2nd-person plural mornið mornaðið
3rd-person plural morni mornaði
imperative present
2nd-person singular morna
1st-person plural mornum
2nd-person plural mornið
Conjugation of morna — mediopassive (weak class 2)
infinitive mornask
present participle mornandisk
past participle mornazk
indicative present past
1st-person singular mornumk mornuðumk
2nd-person singular mornask mornaðisk
3rd-person singular mornask mornaðisk
1st-person plural mornumsk mornuðumsk
2nd-person plural mornizk mornuðuzk
3rd-person plural mornask mornuðusk
subjunctive present past
1st-person singular mornumk mornuðumk
2nd-person singular mornisk mornaðisk
3rd-person singular mornisk mornaðisk
1st-person plural mornimsk mornaðimsk
2nd-person plural mornizk mornaðizk
3rd-person plural mornisk mornaðisk
imperative present
2nd-person singular mornask
1st-person plural mornumsk
2nd-person plural mornizk
Related terms
  • morn f (“pining away”)
Descendants

References

  • “morna”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Portuguese

Etymology

From morno.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

morna f (plural mornas)

  1. (music) morna

Adjective

morna

  1. feminine singular of morno

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