muša

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See also: musa, Musa, musā, mūsā, mūsa, and mušā

Latvian

 muša on Latvian Wikipedia
Istabas muša

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Etymology

Via an intermediate form *musya, from Proto-Baltic *mūs-, from Proto-Indo-European *mū-, *mu- (“fly, insect”) with an extra s.

Cognates include Lithuanian mùsė, dialectal musià, Old Church Slavonic моуха (muxa), Russian муха (muxa), Ancient Greek μυῖα (muîa) (< *müsya), Latin musca, Old Armenian մուն (mun), Proto-Germanic *mūją, *muwī (“midge”) (English midge, German Mücke, Dutch mug, Swedish mygg, Icelandic mý).[1]

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Noun

muša f (4th declension)

  1. fly (small two-winged insect, belonging to the order Diptera, especially family Muscidae)
    istabas, mājas muša ― room, house fly (= housefly)
    gaļas muša ― meat fly (= blowfly)
    mēslu muša ― dung fly
    cece muša ― tsetse fly
    mušu kāpuri ― fly larvae

Declension

Declension of muša (4th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) muša mušas
accusative (akuzatīvs) mušu mušas
genitive (ģenitīvs) mušas mušu
dative (datīvs) mušai mušām
instrumental (instrumentālis) mušu mušām
locative (lokatīvs) mušā mušās
vocative (vokatīvs) muša mušas

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “muša”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎ (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Lithuanian

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Verb

mùša

  1. third-person singular present of mušti
  2. third-person plural present of mušti
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