duum

See also: duûm and düüm

Gagauz

Etymology

By surface analysis, duu- +‎ -um. Compare Turkish doğum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duːm/

Noun

duum (definite accusative duumu, plural duumnar)

1. birth

   bırası benim duum erim

   this is my birth place

2. birth rate
3. sunrise

Declension

Declension of duum

	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	duum	duumnar
definite accusative (belirtme)	duumu	duumnarı
dative (yönelme)	duuma	duumnara
locative (bulunma)	duumda	duumnarda
ablative (çıkma)	duumdan	duumnardan
genitive (tamlayan)	duumun	duumnarın

Further reading

• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “дуум”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 165
• Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “duum”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 58

Latin

Alternative forms

• duûm

Etymology

An inflected form of duo (“two”) from Old Latin, where the use of -um instead of -ōrum (cf. Latin duōrum) at the end of second-declension nouns was an archaic feature.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.um/, [ˈd̪uʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.um/, [ˈd̪uːum]

Numeral

duum

1. genitive masculine of duo
   • 3rd century BCE, Gnaeus Naevius, Tarentilla:

     Salvi et fortunati sitis duo duum nostrum patres!

     Good day, good luck to you, the two fathers of us two!

2. genitive neuter of duo

Derived terms

• duumvir

Sundanese

Verb

duum

1. to divide
2. to split
3. to be lazy