muf
See also: MUF
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch muf, from muffen, from Middle Dutch muffen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mœf/
Adjective
muf (attributive muwwe, comparative muwwer, superlative mufste)
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *muska, from Proto-Indo-European *mewH- (“wet”). Cognate with Latvian maût (“to plunge”), Serbo-Croatian mȉti (“to wash”).[1]
Adjective
muf (feminine mufe)
- unripe (of figs)
- (figurative, derogatory) mentally immature
Derived terms
- mufkë
References
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “muf”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 276
Dutch
Etymology
From muffen, from Middle Dutch muffen. Of uncertain ultimate origin, but perhaps related to modder (“mud”), based on a supposed original meaning of "moisture."
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mʏf/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: muf
- Rhymes: -ʏf
Adjective
muf (comparative muffer, superlative mufst)
Declension
| Declension of muf | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | muf | |||
| inflected | muffe | |||
| comparative | muffer | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | muf | muffer | het mufst het mufste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | muffe | muffere | mufste |
| n. sing. | muf | muffer | mufste | |
| plural | muffe | muffere | mufste | |
| definite | muffe | muffere | mufste | |
| partitive | mufs | muffers | — | |
Derived terms
- mufheid
Descendants
Volapük
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /muf/
Noun
muf (nominative plural mufs)
- motion, movement
- movement, trend
- 1938, “Pö yelacen”, in Volapükagased pro Nedänapükans, page 1:
- Yel epasetiköl no ebinon bönik pro muf obsik. Meug refudik reiganefa Deutänik tefü yufapüks difik edämükon i Volapükamufi.
- The past year has not been favorable for our movement. The negative attitude of the German government towards the various auxiliary languages has also damaged the Volapük movement.
Related terms
- mufön