maurs

Icelandic

Noun

maurs

1. indefinite genitive singular of maur

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *mauˀras, from the stem Proto-Indo-European *mew-, *mow-, *mu- (“humidity; dirty wetness; to wash”), with an extra -r. The meaning evolved from “humid place” to “humid place where many plants grow”, “small plants of humid, swampy areas”, and finally “area covered with plants, grass”. Cognates include Lithuanian máuras, usually plural mauraĩ, Russian мурава́ (muravá, “grass, lawn”), dialectal мура (mura, “small plants; piece of land covered with low vegetation and flooded during spring”), Ukrainian мурина́ (muryná, “miry, swampy place after flooding”), Ancient Greek μύρω (múrō, “to flow”), μύρομαι (múromai, “to cry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [māūrs]

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Noun

maurs m (1st declension)

1. grass, lawn

Declension

Declension of maurs (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	maurs	mauri
accusative (akuzatīvs)	mauru	maurus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	maura	mauru
dative (datīvs)	mauram	mauriem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	mauru	mauriem
locative (lokatīvs)	maurā	mauros
vocative (vokatīvs)	maur	mauri