muša

See also: musa, Musa, musā, mūsā, mūsa, mušā, and mǖsá

Latvian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Via an intermediate form *musya, from Proto-Baltic *mūs-, from Proto-Indo-European *mū-, *mu- (fly, insect) with an extra s.

Cognates include Lithuanian mùsė, dialectal musià, Old Church Slavonic моуха (muxa), Russian муха (muxa), Ancient Greek μυῖα (muîa) (< *müsya), Latin musca, Old Armenian մուն (mun), Proto-Germanic *mūją, *muwī (midge) (English midge, German Mücke, Dutch mug, Swedish mygg, Icelandic ).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [muʃa]
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Noun

muša f (4th declension)

  1. fly (small two-winged insect, belonging to the order Diptera, especially family Muscidae)
    istabas, mājas mušaroom, house fly (= housefly)
    gaļas mušameat fly (= blowfly)
    mēslu mušadung fly
    cece mušatsetse fly
    mušu kāpurifly larvae

Declension

Declension of muša (4th declension)
singular plural
nominative muša mušas
genitive mušas mušu
dative mušai mušām
accusative mušu mušas
instrumental mušu mušām
locative mušā mušās
vocative muša mušas

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “muša”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca [Latvian Etymological Dictionary]‎[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmʊʃɐ]

Verb

mùša

  1. third-person singular present of mušti
  2. third-person plural present of mušti