muf

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Afrikaans[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Dutch muf, from muffen, from Middle Dutch muffen.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

muf (attributive muwwe, comparative muwwer, superlative mufste)

  1. stale, musty (having lost its freshness)

Albanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Albanian *muska, from Proto-Indo-European *mewH- (“wet”). Cognate with Latvian maût (“to plunge”), Serbo-Croatian mȉti (“to wash”).[1]

Adjective[edit]

muf (feminine mufe)

  1. unripe (of figs)
  2. (figurative, derogatory) mentally immature

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “muf”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 276

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From muffen, from Middle Dutch muffen.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /mʏf/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: muf
  • Rhymes: -ʏf

Adjective[edit]

muf (comparative muffer, superlative mufst)

  1. stale, musty (having lost its freshness)

Inflection[edit]

Inflection 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[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Afrikaans: muf
  • → Papiamentu: mùf, muf

Volapük[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Probably from English move.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

muf (nominative plural mufs)

  1. motion, movement
  2. movement, trend

Related terms[edit]

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