musta

Written form of a reduction of must have.

musta

1. (colloquial) Contraction of must have.

   He musta guessed. There's no other explanation.

   • 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 38:

     I ran out the kitchen and down the narrow hallway. I passed a staircase on my right that led to the apartment upstairs where T.C. and Miss Lady lived. I'd never been invited up there but I had a colorful picture in my little head about how grand it musta been.

Reflecting pronunciation, used when have is an auxiliary rather than main verb.

• must’ve

• coulda
• hadda
• shoulda
• woulda
• mighta
• oughta

• Ma Tsu, Ma-tsu, Mat-Su, Matsu, Maust, sumat

• 'musta

Clipping of kumusta.

• Hyphenation: mus‧ta
• IPA^(key): /ˈmusta/ [ˈmus̪.t̪ɐ]

músta (Badlit spelling ᜋᜓᜐ᜔ᜆ)

1. hello
2. how are you?
3. used to ask about the status of someone or something

musta

1. with

musta

1. genitive singular of must
2. partitive singular of must
3. illative singular of must

musta

1. genitive singular of must
2. partitive singular of must
3. illative singular of must

• IPA^(key): /ˈmustɑ/, [ˈmus̠tɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ustɑ
• Syllabification^(key): mus‧ta
• Hyphenation^(key): mus‧ta

From Proto-Finnic *musta.

musta (comparative mustempi, superlative mustin)

1. black (colour)
2. black (person)

• (antonym(s) of “colour”): valkoinen

Colors in Finnish · värit (layout · text)

valkoinen	harmaa	musta
punainen; verenpunainen	oranssi; ruskea	keltainen; kermankeltainen, kermanvalkoinen
limetinvihreä	vihreä	mintunvihreä, minttu; tummanvihreä
syaani; sinivihreä	taivaansininen, asuuri	sininen
violetti; indigosini, indigo	magenta; purppura	vaaleanpunainen, pinkki

musta

1. black (colour)
2. black (person)
3. black horse

• (person): neekeri (pejorative, considered racist), mustaihoinen (neutral)

• (antonym(s) of “colour”): valkoinen
• (antonym(s) of “person”): valkoihoinen

• “musta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

A variant for minusta.

musta

1. (colloquial, personal) elative singular of mä (minä)

• minusta

• masut, musat, sumat

From Proto-Finnic *musta. Cognates include Finnish musta and Estonian must.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmustɑ/, [ˈmus̠t]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmustɑ/, [ˈmuʃtɑ]
• Rhymes: -ust, -ustɑ
• Hyphenation: mus‧ta

musta

1. black

musta (comparative mussemp)

1. black
   • 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. I. Molotsova, Loonnontiito (ensimäin osa): oppikirja alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 5:

     Kynnetyn maan päält möö näemmä mustaa, tali harmaata maan päälyst.

     On the ploughed land we see the black, or grey surface of the earth.

Declension of musta (type 3/koira, st-ss gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	musta	mussat
genitive	mussan	mustiin
partitive	mustaa	mustia
illative	mustaa	mustii
inessive	mussaas	mussiis
elative	mussast	mussist
allative	mussalle	mussille
adessive	mussaal	mussiil
ablative	mussalt	mussilt
translative	mussaks	mussiks
essive	mustanna, mustaan	mustinna, mustiin
exessive1)	mustant	mustint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• valkia (“white”)

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 321

musta

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mustum

• "musta", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• (Courland) mustā

From Proto-Finnic *musta.

musta

1. black

• mustu

From Proto-Finnic *musta.

musta

1. black

musta

1. black

Compare Classical Nahuatl mōztla (“tomorrow”)

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈmuːsta/
• (Izalco) IPA^(key): /ˈmusta/

mūsta

1. tomorrow

   Musta ka peyna tiawit talmukwepat nikan

   Tomorrow in the morning we are going to come back here

• wīpta (“day after tomorrow”)
• āshān (“today”)
• yālua (“yesterday”)

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /musˈta/ [mʊsˈt̪a]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: mus‧ta

mustá (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜐ᜔ᜆ) (informal)

1. clipping of kumusta