guur

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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch guur.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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guur (attributive gure, comparative guurder, superlative guurste)

  1. chilling, unpleasantly cold

Dutch

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Etymology

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Clipping of onguur. A similar development took place in the cognate West Frisian ûnhuer, which yielded njoer.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • IPA(key): /ɣyr/, [ɣyːr]
  • Hyphenation: guur
  • Rhymes: -yr

Adjective

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guur (comparative guurder, superlative guurst)

  1. chillingly cold, rainy and windy

Declension

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Declension of guur
uninflected guur
inflected gure
comparative guurder
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial guur guurder het guurst
het guurste
indefinite m./f. sing. gure guurdere guurste
n. sing. guur guurder guurste
plural gure guurdere guurste
definite gure guurdere guurste
partitive guurs guurders

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Afrikaans: guur

References

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  1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “guur”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Somali

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Verb

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guur

  1. marry
  2. relocate

Yapese

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Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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guur

  1. Second-person singular pronoun; you

See also

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References

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  • Jensen, John Thayer (1977) Yapese Reference Grammar, Honolulu: The University press of Hawaii, pages 132-135