mulk

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Estonian

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Etymology

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From Latvian muļķis, muļķe (idiot, fool). Originally, the word only existed in the Mulgi dialect, with the meaning of "fool", but later spread to other dialects and became an exonym.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mulk (genitive mulgi, partitive mulki)

  1. a person from Mulgimaa (a traditional region in Southern Estonia, located south of the city of Viljandi)

Declension

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Declension of mulk (ÕS type 22e/riik, k-g gradation)
singular plural
nominative mulk mulgid
accusative nom.
gen. mulgi
genitive mulkide
partitive mulki mulke
mulkisid
illative mulki
mulgisse
mulkidesse
mulgesse
inessive mulgis mulkides
mulges
elative mulgist mulkidest
mulgest
allative mulgile mulkidele
mulgele
adessive mulgil mulkidel
mulgel
ablative mulgilt mulkidelt
mulgelt
translative mulgiks mulkideks
mulgeks
terminative mulgini mulkideni
essive mulgina mulkidena
abessive mulgita mulkideta
comitative mulgiga mulkidega

Uzbek

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic مُلْك (mulk).

Noun

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mulk (plural mulklar)

  1. property, belongings

Yola

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Etymology

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From Middle English mulke, from Old English meolc, meoluc (milk), from Proto-West Germanic *meluk.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mulk

  1. milk
    • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 96:
      To our pleoughès an mulk-pylès till a neeshte holy die.
      To our ploughs and our milk-pails till the next holiday.

Derived terms

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References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 96