mugir

Probably borrowed from Latin mūgīre. First attested in c. 1400.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

mugir (first-person singular present mugeixo, first-person singular preterite mugí, past participle mugit)

1. to moo; to low

   Synonym: bramular

• mugit

• “mugir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mugir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mugir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Alteration of the inherited Old French muir, muire, based on the original etymology, Latin mūgīre

• IPA^(key): /my.ʒiʁ/

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• Rhymes: -iʁ

mugir

1. to moo

   Entends mugir les vaches. ― Listen to the cows mooing.

2. to roar
   • 1792, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (lyrics and music), “La Marseillaise”:

     Entendez-vous dans les campagnes / Mugir ces féroces soldats ?

     Do you hear, in the countryside / The roar of those ferocious soldiers?

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

• meugler

• “mugir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

From Old Galician-Portuguese mogir, mugir, from Latin mūgīre (“to moo”), from Proto-Indo-European *mug-, *mūg-.

• Homophone: mugi (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: mu‧gir

mugir (first-person singular present mujo, first-person singular preterite mugi, past participle mugido)

1. to moo (to make a lowing sound)

• mugido

Borrowed from Latin mūgīre.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /muˈxiɾ/
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: mu‧gir

mugir (first-person singular present mujo, first-person singular preterite mugí, past participle mugido)

1. (intransitive) to moo

• “mugir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014