bustidura
Basque
FWOTD – 20 October 2024
Etymology
From busti (“to wet”) + -dura.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bus̺tiduɾa/ [bus̺.t̪i.ð̞u.ɾa]
- Rhymes: -uɾa, -a
- Hyphenation: bus‧ti‧du‧ra
Noun
bustidura inan
- (dated) humidity
- Synonym: hezetasun
- 1853, J.M. Hiribarren, Eskaldunac[1], Bayonne: Foré & Laserre, page 231:
- Bustiadura dute izurrite handi, / Nola inzpura, udan, idor dena gueldi.
- [Bustiadura dute izurrite handi, / nola inzpura, udan, idor dena geldi.]
- Humidity is a great plague for them [sheep] / like the swamp which dries up in summer.
- (linguistics) palatalization
- Synonym: palatalizazio
Declension
| indefinite | singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| absolutive | bustidura | bustidura | bustidurak |
| ergative | bustidurak | bustidurak | bustidurek |
| dative | bustidurari | bustidurari | bustidurei |
| genitive | bustiduraren | bustiduraren | bustiduren |
| comitative | bustidurarekin | bustidurarekin | bustidurekin |
| causative | bustidurarengatik | bustidurarengatik | bustidurengatik |
| benefactive | bustidurarentzat | bustidurarentzat | bustidurentzat |
| instrumental | bustiduraz | bustiduraz | bustidurez |
| inessive | bustiduratan | bustiduran | bustiduretan |
| locative | bustiduratako | bustidurako | bustiduretako |
| allative | bustiduratara | bustidurara | bustiduretara |
| terminative | bustidurataraino | bustiduraraino | bustiduretaraino |
| directive | bustiduratarantz | bustidurarantz | bustiduretarantz |
| destinative | bustiduratarako | bustidurarako | bustiduretarako |
| ablative | bustiduratatik | bustiduratik | bustiduretatik |
| partitive | bustidurarik | — | — |
| prolative | bustiduratzat | — | — |
Further reading
- “bustidura”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
- “bustidura”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005