maurs

See also: Maurs

Icelandic

Noun

1. indefinite genitive singular of maur

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Latvian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Balto-Slavic *mauˀras, from the stem (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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