mustar

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See also: mustár and muștar

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Etymology

Borrowed from English must, German musste, first and third person preterite of müssen. Cognate with Dutch moest, Swedish måste. Decision no. 149, Progreso III.

Pronunciation

Verb

mustar (present mustas, past mustis, future mustos, conditional mustus, imperative mustez)

  1. (intransitive) must, to have to, to be under the necessity of, be obliged
    Quon on mustas facar por enirar en la cielo?
    What must one do to enter heaven?
    Il ne povas venar kun me, il mustas laborar.
    He can't come with me, he has to work.
  2. (past tense) had to

Conjugation

    Conjugation of mustar
present past future
infinitive mustar mustir mustor
tense mustas mustis mustos
conditional mustus
imperative mustez
adjective active participle mustanta mustinta mustonta
adverbial active participle mustante mustinte mustonte
nominal active participle singular mustanto mustinto mustonto
plural mustanti mustinti mustonti

Further reading

  • Progreso I (in Ido), 1908–1909, page 570
  • Progreso II (in Ido), 1909–1910, page 29, 31, 166, 354, 355
  • Progreso III (in Ido), 1910–1911, page 530
  • Progreso VI (in Ido), 1913–1914, page 487

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From English muster, from Anglo-Norman mostrer, Middle French monstrer, moustrer, from Latin mōnstrō (“to show”), from moneō (“to admonish”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmˠʊsˠt̪ˠəɾˠ/

Noun

mustar m (genitive singular mustair, nominative plural mustair)

  1. (military) muster
  2. ostentation, display
  3. swagger, flash, flashiness, pomp

Declension

Declension of mustar

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mustar mustair
Vocative a mhustair a mhustara
Genitive mustair mustar
Dative mustar mustair

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an mustar na mustair
Genitive an mhustair na mustar
Dative leis an mustar

don mhustar

leis na mustair

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
mustar mhustar not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ “mustar”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 45

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