knir

See also: knír

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from German knirschen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /knir/

Noun

knir (nominative plural knirs)

1. a cracking, crunching, grinding or gnashing sound.
   • 1952, Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus‛, 8.11,12, translated by Arie de Jong.

     «Sagob oles, das mödikans okömoms se lofüd e se vesüd, ed olenseadons ko ‚Abraham‛, ‚Isaac‛ e ‚Iacob‛ in regän sülas;
     du sons regäna posejedoms ini dag plödikün; us odabinons viam e knir tutas».

     "I say to you, that many will come from the east and from the west, and they shall together with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven;
     while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out in the outmost darkness; over there will be woeful crying and the gnashing of teeth."

   • 1961, “Tepaneit”, in Volapükagased, no. 1, 4:

     Soaliko binob in cem:
     slip efugon kruäliko
     de ob, du in neit dagik
     letep jäfon me pled hölik,
     me tag e hag, seif, pleif,
     me drum e brum, me knir, letir,
     me stur e mur, noid, sijid
     de süt lü yad, de dom lü gad.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

declension of knir

	singular	plural
nominative	knir	knirs
genitive	knira	kniras
dative	knire	knires
accusative	kniri	kniris
vocative 1	o knir!	o knirs!
predicative 2	kniru	knirus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Related terms

• knirön