muf

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch muf, from muffen, from Middle Dutch muffen.

Pronunciation

Adjective

muf (attributive muwwe, comparative muwwer, superlative mufste)

  1. stale, musty (having lost its freshness)

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *muska, from Proto-Indo-European *mewH- (wet). Cognate with Latvian maût (to plunge), Serbo-Croatian mȉti (to wash).

Adjective

muf (feminine mufe)

  1. unripe (of figs)
  2. (figurative, derogatory) mentally immature

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “muf”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 276

Dutch

Etymology

From muffen, from Middle Dutch muffen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mʏf/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: muf
  • Rhymes: -ʏf

Adjective

muf (comparative muffer, superlative mufst)

  1. stale, musty (having lost its freshness)

Inflection

Inflection of muf
uninflected muf
inflected muffe
comparative muffer
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial muf muffer het mufst
het mufste
indefinite m./f. sing. muffe muffere mufste
n. sing. muf muffer mufste
plural muffe muffere mufste
definite muffe muffere mufste
partitive mufs muffers

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: muf
  • Papiamentu: mùf, muf

Volapük

Etymology

Probably from English move.

Pronunciation

Noun

muf (nominative plural mufs)

  1. motion, movement
  2. movement, trend

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