guur

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch guur.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /χyːr/

Adjective

guur (attributive gure, comparative guurder, superlative guurste)

  1. chilling, unpleasantly cold

Dutch

Etymology

Clipping of onguur. A similar development took place in the cognate West Frisian ûnhuer, which yielded njoer.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣyr/, [ɣyːr], [χyːr]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: guur
  • Rhymes: -yr

Adjective

guur (comparative guurder, superlative guurst)

  1. chillingly cold, rainy and windy

Declension

Declension of guur
uninflected guur
inflected gure
comparative guurder
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial guur guurder het guurst
het guurste
indefinite m./f. sing. gure guurdere guurste
n. sing. guur guurder guurste
plural gure guurdere guurste
definite gure guurdere guurste
partitive guurs guurders

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: guur

References

  1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “guur”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Somali

Verb

guur

  1. marry
  2. relocate

Yapese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xʊːr/

Pronoun

guur

  1. Second-person singular pronoun; you

See also

Yapese personal pronouns
singular dual plural
first
person
exclusive gaeg gamow gamaed
inclusive gadow gadaed
second person gimeew gimeed
third person qiir yow yaed
partitive bagyow bagyaed
Partitive pronouns are used in expressions such as one of them two (dual) or one of them (plural).

References

  • Jensen, John Thayer (1977) Yapese Reference Grammar, Honolulu: The University press of Hawaii, pages 132-135