muj

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See also: můj

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Gheg variant of Tosk Albanian mund and Arbëresh Albanian múndënj. From Proto-Albanian *māgnja, from Proto-Indo-European *magʰ-, *megʰ-. Compare Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌲𐌰𐌽 (magan), Proto-Slavic *mogь, *moťi (“be able, can”). mund represents a nasal present of muj (cf. Tosk lind > Gheg lej, gdhe > gdhend etc). Alternatively from Proto-Albanian *mundnja, representing a secondary formation based on or yielding mund. See mund (“can, to be able”) for more.

Verb

  1. (active voice) to be able, to can
  2. to prevail
  3. to beat, to win

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “muj”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 277

Romani

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀼𑀳 (muha), from Sanskrit मुख (mukha). Cognates include Hindi मुँह (mũh) and Punjabi ਮੂੰਹ (mū̃h).

Noun

muj m inan (nominative plural muja)

  1. mouth
    Duj duj desuduj, csumidavme lako muj
    Two, two, twelve, I'll kiss her mouth
  2. face

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “múkha”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 585
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “muj”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 186b-187a
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Yaron Matras (2002) Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 27, 36, 40, 61, 84, 92
  4. ^ Marcel Courthiade (1989) Geoff Husič, transl., Romani Grammar‎, e-book edition, volumes 1: General Information, Phonology, and Morphology, Lawrence, Kansas, published 2019, →OCLC, pages 37, 48, 60, 132, 140
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o muj, -es- m. -a, -en- = o m/uj, -os- m. -uja, -on- (phurikani fòrma)”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 247ab
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “muj, ~a”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 152b
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