muru

Borrowed from Maori.

muru

1. (New Zealand) An act of retaliatory theft among the Maori.

• murumuru

• Urum

• IPA^(key): /mʊɹʊ/

muru

1. pathway

muru

1. path

Possibly from Proto-Finnic *muro, compare dialectal Finnish muro (“chickweed”), Võro muro, moro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuru/, [ˈmuru]

muru (genitive muru, partitive muru)

1. lawn
2. grass

• “muru”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
• “muru”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “muru”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• muru in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

From Old Galician-Portuguese muro, from Latin murus, from Latin *moerus, *moiros, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to fix, to build fortifications or fences, strengthen”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuɾu/
• Rhymes: -uɾu
• Syllabification: mu‧ru

muru m (plural murus)

1. wall

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

From Proto-Finnic *muru. Equivalent to mur- +‎ -u, from the same root as murea and murtaa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuru/, [ˈmuru]
• Rhymes: -uru
• Hyphenation^(key): mu‧ru

muru

1. crumb
   1. very small amount of something, a jot, an iota

      Synonyms: hitunen, hiven, kipene, murunen, rahtu, rahtunen

2. (colloquial) honey (term of affection)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:kultanen

• muren
• murentaa
• murentua
• murtua

• “muru”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

muru

1. nose

From Proto-Finnic *muru, equivalent to murtaa (“to break”) +‎ -u. Cognates include Finnish muru and Estonian muru.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmuru/, [ˈmuru]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmuru/, [ˈmuru]
• Rhymes: -uru
• Hyphenation: mu‧ru

muru

1. crumb
   • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 10:

     Noistii joka päivä viskoima[a] lavvan päälle muruja, kovasija ja jyvijä.

     They began to throw crumbs, crusts and grain onto the board every day.

2. Short for maitomuru (“tyurya”).

• (crumb): muro

• (diminutive) muruin, murukkain

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 320

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muru (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. crumb

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muru

1. egg

• murru (Trøndelag)

Metaphony of Old Norse mǫru, oblique singular forms of mara. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *marǭ, whence also modern English mare (“evil spirit”).

muru f (definite singular murua or (defunct) muro, indefinite plural murur, definite plural murune)

1. (dialectal or nonstandard since 1917) alternative form of mare (“evil spirit”)
   • 1954, Lars M. Fjellstad, “Murua”, in Haugfolk og trollskap, page 18:

     Murua var atterganger etter ugifte kvinnfolk som ikkje hadde hatt mann, sa dei gamle[.]

     The mare[s were] the ghost[s] of unmarried womenfolk which never had had a man, said the old ones.

   • 1918, Gamalt fraa Numedal, volume 3, Gunleikson, page 24:

     Krøteri var ute for muro, dei med.

     Even the cattle were exposed to the mare-wight.

• This form was the standard form allowed under the scarcely used Midlandsnormalen of 1901, alongside maru. It had the inflected forms muro, murur and murune, in the definite singular, indefinite plural and definite plural respectively. These forms faded into oblivion and were definitely defunct by the spelling reform of 1917.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.ru/
• Rhymes: -uru
• Syllabification: mu‧ru

muru m inan

1. genitive singular of mur

From Latin mūrus. Compare Italian muro.

muru

1. wall

From Latin mūrus. Compare Italian muro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuɾu/
• Hyphenation: mù‧ru

muru m (plural muri or mura)

1. wall

From Proto-Finnic *muru.

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muru

1. crumb
2. bit, small piece

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “крошка”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[3], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

From Proto-Finnic *muru.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈmuru/, [ˈmuru]
• Rhymes: -uru
• Hyphenation: mu‧ru

muru

1. small piece, bit, morsel
2. crumb
3. sop, milksop (bread sopped in water or milk)
4. (figuratively) (not) one bit

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “muru”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

muru

1. Alternative form of muro.

• State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Yugarabul Body Parts.